What's the difference between shorthand and stenographer?

Shorthand


Definition:

  • (n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither is it clear that the Cyber Caliphate has a relationship with Isis, which does not use that English shorthand to refer to itself.
  • (2) As anyone who has witnessed one of its cake stall scrums knows, the WI has become shorthand for the finest homemade produce: it has a fearsome reputation to protect. "
  • (3) (His new movie, The Frozen Ground , has a limited cinema release and will be available on demand, which, given the demand for on demand, Cage wishes critics would stop using as shorthand for failure.)
  • (4) Neoliberalism is often used today as shorthand for any idea that is pro-market and anti-government intervention, but it is actually more specific than this.
  • (5) Taking the episodic and cyclic plasma gonadotropin fluctuations into consideration a shorthand system classifying the gonadotropin baseline (BI-BIV) and LH responses to 25 mug LRH (R0-R2) has been established and is referred to as Human Pituitary Gonadotropin Index (HPGI).
  • (6) Staubach later said he had closed his eyes and prayed – and the "Hail Mary" is now NFL shorthand for a last-gasp forward pass with little chance of success.
  • (7) He has long decried supposed British and American plots to deny the Iranian nation its "rights" – assumed shorthand for a nuclear bomb.
  • (8) The shorthand name for the new edition, the organisation's fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, is DSM-5.
  • (9) I’ve started to communicate only in code,” she says, referring to the cryptic three-letter shorthand for a voter’s answers to three crucial questions that provide their profile – will you be voting Labour, did you vote Labour last time, and would you prefer a Labour government.
  • (10) In the US, the Victoria's Secret catalogue has become so infamous that it is now used as a shorthand for easy-access quasi porn in US sitcoms (Friends was especially fond of referencing it).
  • (11) The second problem is that the word “troll” has become shorthand for describing any behaviour online that may cause offence.
  • (12) He and Ryan discuss technical matters in shorthand.
  • (13) Its truth is secondary to its function as a crude shorthand for the negating of difference and change.
  • (14) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
  • (15) Nevertheless, in 1958 she left school with a favourable report: “Priscilla is suitable for office work.” She duly took a one-year secretarial and shorthand course at Anfield Commercial College, following which she landed a typing job at the offices of a construction company, BICC (British Insulated Callender’s Cables).
  • (16) For good or ill, the phrase stuck, and it's become an easy shorthand for people to fall back on when times get tough.
  • (17) If it has seemed sudden, it is because the breathless shorthand describing the crisis has disguised a fact that Iraq has been grinding towards this moment of existential truth for the past two years at least, a path from which none of its key actors has seemed able or willing to divert it.
  • (18) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
  • (19) For shorthand, let's call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style flood.
  • (20) Brexit” is shorthand for British exit from the European Union – a possibility that is looking more realistic by the day.

Stenographer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She led protesters on to the stage, and the stenographer’s record of the meeting was destroyed.
  • (2) Planning was not just the preserve of professionals: parliamentary stenographers, religious groups, architectural critics, authors, musicians, photographers, film-makers all contributed to the collective visions of Britain's possible futures.
  • (3) A proficient stenographer who had had cerebral metastases suffered from pure alexia for normal print but could still read stenography with ease.
  • (4) Two possible machines are currently available for English Transcriptions; the Palantype (a British device) and the Stenograph (an American device).
  • (5) …" Suddenly she pointed to an American girl going into the water: "That young lady may be a stenographer and yet be compelled to warp herself, dressing and acting as if she had all the money in the world."
  • (6) I shall train as a stenographer to earn extra cash."
  • (7) Begun in 1912 by John Benjamin Murphy, one of America's surgical giants, the Surgical Clinics initially comprised verbatim stenographic reports of clinical talks given by Dr. Murphy.
  • (8) Of special interest to us today is the fact that Sullivan arranged to have a stenographer take down a number of his interviews with patients during the years 1926 and 1927.
  • (9) And yet, in their reactions to the rolling scoops published by the Guardian , the Washington Post , the New York Times and Der Spiegel, many of them seem to have succumbed either to a weird kind of spiteful envy, or to a desire to act as the unpaid stenographers to the security services and their political masters.
  • (10) Watch out, for the more you reduce his stature as a stenographer, the greater you make him as a writer, as a creator.'"
  • (11) He simply hired a stenographer to follow him around and record his stories, while he talked and talked.
  • (12) The effort to complete it surely killed Orwell, who was forced to type the manuscript himself; his publisher, Alfred Secker, having failed to arrange a stenographer.