What's the difference between prospect and prospectus?
Prospect
Definition:
(v.) That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
(v.) Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
(v.) A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
(v.) Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
(v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.
(v.) That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.
(v. t.) To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.
(v. i.) To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(3) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(4) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(5) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(6) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
(7) A prospective randomized trial was conducted at Srinagarind and Khon Kaen hospitals.
(8) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(9) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
(10) A prospective randomized trial involving 64 patients with bleeding peptic ulcers was performed to assess the efficacy of two modalities of injection therapy.
(11) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(12) A 4-year prospective study was carried out on 53 chronically mentally ill patients living in a differentiated complementary residential complex.
(13) We are now conducting prospective clinical trials with one service using the algorithm and the others acting as the control group.
(14) Thirty-seven patients with retinoblastoma were evaluated prospectively by clinical examination, lumbar puncture, and CT.
(15) Two hundred eleven adult emergency hand patients were prospectively tested over a 1-year period for drug and alcohol use.
(16) In the first of two phases of this study, we established criteria for a prospective screening study.
(17) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(18) In an open, prospectively randomised, parallel group study, 124 patients with a history of constipation for more than three weeks were treated with either 15 ml bd of lactulose (increasing to 60 ml daily if necessary) or one sachet bd of ispaghula.
(19) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(20) The results obtained in a pilot study (42 patients with 74 lesions), a multicenter trial (254 patients with 553 lesions) and a prospective study still outstanding (29 patients with 38 lesions) allow to consider this system as suitable for clinical application.
Prospectus
Definition:
(n.) A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(2) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(3) How do young people view prospectuses – do they see them as marketing or as a true reflection of the university?
(4) Bradley argues that, while young people are generally good at spotting advertising, university prospectuses are different and can slip under the radar of skepticism.
(5) ■ The risk factors outlined in the prospectus run to 18 pages.
(6) Many ministers were also privately pressing Brown not to dwell on his record in handling the recession, but instead on offering an optimistic prospectus for the future.
(7) The news comes as it releases its much-anticipated rights issue prospectus (Barclays is raising £6bn to improve its capital reserves).
(8) His visionary prospectus was for nations to come together to underpin global prosperity and thus freedom – and for which a single currency was an indispensable pillar.
(9) "There's a sense that prospectuses are factual," he says.
(10) Google included the full text of the Playboy interview in an amended SEC filing and explained several factual differences between the article and its prospectus.
(11) • Salmond and Sturgeon put extending childcare at the centre of their prospectus.
(12) The TSB prospectus shows that Lloyds is also helping the newly spun-off bank - which has been back on the high streets since September - to become more profitable by handing over an extra £3.4bn of loans, which are expected to generate £230m of additional profit by 2017.
(13) The company has ambitious plans to expand – in its share prospectus it said it had bought land in five city centres to expand its hospital services.
(14) Make a list of possible courses by scouring prospectuses and speaking to teachers, students and lecturers.
(15) The heavily indebted Russian firm today published its flotation prospectus, revealing that it planned to raise $2.6bn (£1.6bn) in an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares this month in an attempt to cut debt and raise its international profile.
(16) The company's prospectus acknowledges this: "Owing to Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload heritage, some users and music suppliers may not favour using or engaging with Baboom, and labels may be reluctant to license material.
(17) The deputy prime minister will issue a "call to arms for visionaries" to set out radical plans for new housing schemes as he announces the publication of a prospectus inviting bids from councils.
(18) Wheatley said: "An IPO [initial public offering] that goes, on the back of a prospectus and a marketing campaign, to a premium, does not of itself generate a suspicion of regulatory failure."
(19) The Scottish government will publish a white paper finally detailing its "prospectus for independence", setting out the Scottish National party's vision for an independent Scotland.
(20) If court approval is speedy, BG will publish the document on Tuesday and Shell will issue its prospectus on the same day.