What's the difference between reiteration and tautology?

Reiteration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
  • (2) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
  • (3) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
  • (4) Patients with reactive arthritis, sacroiliitis, spondylitis or Reiter's syndrome following intestinal infection from Yersinia, Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter organisms have been reported from endemic areas and after epidemic dysenteries.
  • (5) Administration officials, briefing reporters ahead of the speech, said Obama would reiterate his commitment to cutting America's greenhouse gas emissions 17% from 2005 levels by the end of the decade.
  • (6) States are meant to swim alone on this … We’re already doing extraordinary things to deal with the burgeoning demands on our hospitals.” Turnbull reiterated an earlier call for the states and territories to look at increasing some of their own revenue measures to make up for funding shortfalls.
  • (7) An outer sheath was isolated from Treponema phagedenis biotype Reiter by our previously developed method (Masuda, K., and Kawata, T. 1982.
  • (8) This group includes the typical ankylosing spondylitis as well as atypical spondylopathies such as those occurring in psoriasis, Reiter's disease and chronic inflammatory enteropathies, which attack mainly the spine and secondarily the peripheral joints.
  • (9) We describe a man who presented with Reiter's syndrome and a new prominent malar rash.
  • (10) If it means calling in the French military to support the police, then so be it.” A Eurotunnel spokesman said: “Eurotunnel reiterates its call to the authorities to provide a solution to the migrant crisis and restore order to the Calais region.” The Port of Dover, which faced heavy disruption all week due to striking ferry workers in France, said it remained open for business.
  • (11) Still, he reiterates that he'd never heard of "this guy," Mayor Sokolich, until yesterday.
  • (12) The author concedes that a combined version with intact membranes prior to an attempt of vaginal delivery may have been desirable in his cases but he reiterates that a Caesarean section for the second twin was the only way to obtain healthy live infants in his three exceptional cases.
  • (13) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
  • (14) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
  • (15) Hall reiterated that the corporation does not believe that Yentob abused his position by influencing the BBC’s news coverage of the charity.
  • (16) T. phagedenis (biotype Reiter) was comparatively investigated and showed only two glycosylated proteins with molecular weights 33,000 and 34,000.
  • (17) He reiterated his jibe that the Republican convention had been like watching something from the past, a black-and-white newsreel.
  • (18) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
  • (19) These data suggest the possibility that the smaller number of internal reiterations in EBV (W91) DNA may be a consequence of the additional unique DNA and a restriction in the overall size of EBV DNA.
  • (20) Liddiment reiterated concerns that BBC Radio 4 should also extend its appeal to a younger audience after the proportion of its listeners aged between 35 and 54 fell from 33% in 2000 to 26% last year.

Tautology


Definition:

  • (n.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two studies are reported in which subjects rated the acceptability of different tautological constructions either alone (Experiment 1) or with supporting contextual information (Experiment 2).
  • (2) Barton rubs Old Firm up the wrong way Joey Barton apologises ‘unreservedly’ after being sent home by Rangers Read more The phrase “Joey Barton Twitter storm” is pretty much a tautology, so it was no surprise that his decision to sign for Rangers in May had social media in a kerfuffle when his 2012 tweet – “I am a Celtic fan” – was dredged up so that it might be subject to calm and sober scrutiny from all concerned.
  • (3) These 5 were classified into 2 operations of varying the independent variable, 2 of holding the independent variable constant, and tautology.
  • (4) If Farage was tempted to reply that his opponent trades in a cut-price political rhetoric that reduces debate to a bewildering brew of slogans, tautologies and clap-lines, he chose instead to occupy the argumentative high ground – or as close as Ukippers get to it.
  • (5) What do tautological phrases such as Boys will be boys, A promise is a promise, or War is war mean and how are they understood?
  • (6) None of the other freedoms are as free as they were meant to be, so how about we make this freedom a bit less of a freedom to make it more in line with the other non-freedoms.” Caught up in the tautology of his argument, the prime minister went on to make ever wilder and contradictory claims.
  • (7) However, this tautologic upper limit does not uniquely define the critical duration.
  • (8) Duration judgments were explaned predominantly by succession, whereas succession judgments were explained tautologically or by mere "seeing."
  • (9) This is what passes for significant thought in the GOP: new scare facts colliding with new anecdotes of meetin’ folks, all to explain re-synonymized tautologies.
  • (10) Our results indicate that glucoreceptor cells in tissues perfused by carotid arteries may play a tautological role in the sympathetic response to hypoglycemia and imply that glucose-sensitive receptors must also be located elsewhere in the central nervous system or in the periphery.
  • (11) They are nothing more, Stewart now acknowledges, than tautologies.
  • (12) Confining the diagnosis of schizophrenia to the severe cases indicates a conservative, perhaps tautological, approach to this diagnosis.
  • (13) To avoid tautology, the nature of these was confirmed by immunostaining for epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) and factor VIII-related antigen (FVII RAg).
  • (14) The first is a tautology lacking explanatory power.
  • (15) The reasoning may be questioned because of faulty inferential leaps, undue reliance on the concept of 'maturity', the use of a tautology, ('The dependent person is...dependent'), internal contradictions, and a questionable analogy between children's and adults' behaviour.
  • (16) The basic tenet of twin biology, that most twin excess anomalies are due to MZs, is a myth self-perpetuated by a methodological tautology, and is false, at least for mortality.
  • (17) It is argued that since Heather & Robertson's 'new' approach incorporates a set of assumptions parallel to those of the disease concept it is equally tautological, and therefore does not represent the type of change in paradigm they propose.
  • (18) Historian and MP Tristram Hunt is indicted for "tautology and other errors".
  • (19) It is this devotion to the infinitely unknown that makes Hugo so meticulous in giving the reader Valjean's prison numbers; and why Valjean's name is almost a tautology.
  • (20) Forensic factors were found to be positively related to length of admission; and motivation for treatment--a problematic concept which has frequently been regarded as tautologous--is also discussed.

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