What's the difference between perusal and scrutiny?

Perusal


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of carefully viewing or examining.
  • (n.) The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I peruse a potential bargain I know I am influenced more by the extent of the reduction than whether the discounted item is something we really want.
  • (2) A brief perusal of the list indicates that is a very big if.
  • (3) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (4) Complementary vectors drive the reader to peruse these records.
  • (5) Jamie Oliver may have time to wander around perusing the streets for good deals on fresh food and finding charming little stories out of what is actually poverty rather than budget cooking for fun, but in the real world you do the best with what you have.
  • (6) Information about the patients, the characteristics and management of their asthma and the circumstances of the fatal episode was obtained by interviewing relatives and general practitioners and perusal of hospital records.
  • (7) It will then extract whatever metadata the user is looking for and store it all in a file for perusal later on.
  • (8) Taking a break from perusing storyboards that variously show Fellaini challenging the Saracens No8 Ernst Joubert as he leaps for a lineout and Humphrey avoiding tennis balls fired at him by Heather Watson, Garicoche adds: "Our style is going to be different.
  • (9) One must peruse the literature with a very critical eye, as most new agents are touted as tremendous advances on past antibiotics.
  • (10) The database provides a continuous online environment for data perusal and editing and is used as the informatics core for running the human gene mapping workshops.
  • (11) Perusal of the literature disclosed two additional similar cases.
  • (12) Focused, microregion anatomic perusal is applicable throughout pregnancy, provides information for physiologic inference, and can be used for prediction of pathology, detection of abnormalities, and, in most examinations, in a wellness role of confirming normality.
  • (13) Let me peruse something lighter, such as the Sunday papers.
  • (14) In his regular monthly commentary as head of the schools watchdog, Ofsted , Wilshaw writes: “Anyone regularly perusing the job vacancy pages of the education press cannot help but notice just how many of our elite public schools are busy opening up international branches across the globe, especially in the Gulf states and the far east,” he says.
  • (15) Perusal of the literature uncovered only a single report of a placental leiomyoma.
  • (16) Perusal of the literature revealed that until 1970, 13 children with malignant melanoma of the head and neck had been reported.
  • (17) For the manual search, the contents of 34 arbitrarily selected, gastroenterologic, hepatologic, surgical, or general journals were perused.
  • (18) Perusal of the literature revealed seven cases of Spitz nevus of the conjunctiva, but for some of them the histology was incompletely described.
  • (19) A stage has been set up to welcome medallists and fans can pick up supporter’s packs containing Russian flags and peruse memorabilia donated by famous Russian athletes.
  • (20) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.

Scrutiny


Definition:

  • (n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.
  • (n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
  • (n.) A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
  • (n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
  • (v. t.) To scrutinize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (2) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
  • (3) Even so, the controversy over the last assessment, and the political polarisation in America and other countries around climate science and the need for climate action, have created an additional layer of scrutiny around next week's report.
  • (4) Recommendations are made suggesting closer scrutiny of this region of the spine.
  • (5) This proposal is a purely partisan move that will backfire on the government disastrously.” The Green party accused Osborne of making “efforts to limit the democratic scrutiny of his austerity agenda”.
  • (6) Trump and Hillary Clinton’s dismal honesty ratings, he says, show scrutiny is working.
  • (7) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
  • (8) The surgical modality used was the modified Widman flap operation and the pockets under scrutiny were those with an initial probing depth of 4-6 mm.
  • (9) Over the last few days a former member of parliament's intelligence and security committee, Lord King, a former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.
  • (10) "There is understandable scrutiny on how we are doing things and that should act as a conduit to look at labor issues across the region.
  • (11) In most developing countries abortion is illegal, and scrutiny of hospital records on complication (a 49% rate in a study in Latin America and 46% hospitalization) is a source.
  • (12) There is all sorts of opacity which makes it easy for an employee to suffer retaliation.” Despite recent reforms to improve transparency and accountability, the organisation remains impervious to public scrutiny, with no established mechanism for freedom of information – a right which more than 100 governments around the world have enshrined in law, and is openly advocated by UN bodies such as Unesco.
  • (13) Those seeking to stop the project contend that the $997m joint venture, signed in May 2010, did not undergo parliamentary scrutiny because it was concluded under the previous military regime.
  • (14) It is essential, therefore, to submit one's loyalties and value judgments to constant scrutiny and questioning and to those theological criteria that make abortion also (though not only) a theological question, a task not without its risks.
  • (15) But the damage from the whole affair and inevitable scrutiny of her successor might just mean they take a more even-handed approach to the job.
  • (16) WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal which of their users are under similar scrutiny.
  • (17) Reacting to the announcement of the government review, Lady Smith of Basildon, the shadow leader of the Lords, said: “This is a massive over-reaction from a prime minister that clearly resents any challenge or meaningful scrutiny.
  • (18) But when they show up in Manchester at lunchtime on Tuesday to take part in a Conservative conference fringe meeting entitled Challenges for the EU in 2010, they may find themselves under the kind of scrutiny they rarely face at home.
  • (19) On the back of the disclosures, President Obama ordered a White House review into data surveillance , a number of congressional reform bills have been introduced, and protections have begun to be put in place to safeguard privacy for foreign leaders and to increase scrutiny over the NSA’s mass data collection.
  • (20) Alternative taxonomic structures require careful scrutiny and comparison to establish whether one structure will meet the needs of the profession or whether multiple structures of nursing diagnoses relative to outcomes are required.