What's the difference between recite and verbatim?

Recite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.
  • (v. t.) To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
  • (v. t.) To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
  • (v. t.) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
  • (v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
  • (n.) A recital.

Example Sentences:

Verbatim


Definition:

  • (adv.) Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More tasks were remembered by subjects tested via performance than by subjects tested via verbatim recall.
  • (2) Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews of 1 hour, which were tape recorded and transcribed verbatim.
  • (3) If this representation consists of a verbal instruction that is translated into action at the time of retrieval, then memory should be better when tested via verbatim recall of the instruction than when tested via actual performance.
  • (4) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
  • (5) Using data from a 1986 national telephone survey, we performed a content analysis of subjects' verbatim reports as to why they lacked an RSAC (n = 5,748).
  • (6) An internal email written at the time reported that, according to Brooks, police had found “numerous voice recordings and verbatim notes of his accesses to voicemails” and that they had a list of more than 100 hacking victims (as distinct from the eight who were later named in court) and that they came from “different areas of public life – politics, showbiz etc” (as distinct from the royal victims who were of interest to the only News of the World journalist they had arrested).
  • (7) But the guobao surprised me with their ability to repeat my words or voice messages verbatim, though I'm sure I only sent them to some friends through WeChat."
  • (8) Operating room, organ procurement agency, and critical care nurses were interviewed; audiotaped interviews were transcribed verbatim.
  • (9) The organization of the materials and the design of the training protocol allow for a wide range of practice activities in tracking, including the use of nonverbatim as well as verbatim responses.
  • (10) While neither the company, nor anyone representing Verbatim Communications Ltd, acted for anyone in the Nama sale to Cerberus, Verbatim Communications fully supports all investigations into the matter whether in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.” The company added that: “Three years ago, Verbatim Communications Ltd was engaged by Tughans to assist with a very successful event relating to third-level education.
  • (11) Perhaps such mistakes are unsurprising: much of the letter was cut and pasted verbatim, without acknowledgement or circumspection, from a document published by an anti-windfarm group called Country Guardian.
  • (12) Verbatim examples of these techniques are given as illustrations of how to use them.
  • (13) When I went to British film investors with stories of the black experience in a historical context, I was told verbatim: 'We're looking for Dickens or Austen.
  • (14) In verbatim, responsibility for whatever attitudes and ideas make it to the stage can always be conveniently devolved.
  • (15) Despite the veneer of authenticity that verbatim gives, it inevitably serves to mask the biases of the makers – their decisions about who to give voice to, what opinions to edit out.
  • (16) A talker and a receiver engage in a dialogue for a designated period of time in which the receiver reports his perception of successive segments of read text and is corrected by the talker until the text is repeated verbatim.
  • (17) All the interviews were transcribed verbatim by the principal researcher and analyzed by the technique of immersion and crystallization.
  • (18) Whole tracts of Pound's Cantos are "found" passages lifted verbatim from secondary sources.
  • (19) In July 2008, Osborne repeated the pledge verbatim.
  • (20) Verbatim descriptions of seizure manifestations were transcribed from medical records as part of a large, population-based prevalence study of childhood epilepsy conducted in two countries in central Oklahoma.