What's the difference between subscript and subscription?

Subscript


Definition:

  • (a.) Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.
  • (n.) Anything written below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) OnLive launched in 2010 and now offers over 200 titles via a subscription-based model.
  • (2) Streaming and subscription revenues rose by more than 50% over the past year to reach $1.1bn, helping overall sales of recorded music in Europe grow for the first time in 12 years, according to figures published yesterday.
  • (3) The Economist, which has just launched a single-copy subscription service and reached an undisclosed settlement with oil tycoon Gennady Timchenko in July, saw UK sales rise 2.6% year on year to 187,341.
  • (4) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
  • (5) A review of efforts to formulate basic medical journal lists and a report of a survey of subscriptions held in academic health science libraries is presented.
  • (6) The Conservative MP calling for the BBC licence fee to be replaced with a voluntary subscription is expecting a response to his request for a review of the matter from the culture secretary by the middle of the week.
  • (7) YouView – a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva and TalkTalk – aims to replace Freeview as a subscription-free interactive TV service to rival pay-TV giants BSkyB and Virgin Media.
  • (8) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
  • (9) Globally, 20m people paid to use subscription music services in 2012, according to another industry body, the IFPI, which has highlighted streaming's impact in Sweden and Norway as a sign of bright times ahead for other countries.
  • (10) The transport of taurocholate across the brush-border membranes was stimulated in the presence of Na(+) compared with the presence of K(+); stimulation was about 11-fold in the presence of a NaCl gradient (Na(o)>Na(i)), where the subscripts refer to ;outside' and ;inside' respectively, and 4-fold under equilibrium conditions for Na(+) (Na(o)=Na(i)).
  • (11) Nature , one of the world's leading cross-disciplinary scientific journals and owned by the publishing group Macmillan, charges subscriptions for access to its suite of magazines and websites.
  • (12) Speculation about YouTube's plans for a Spotify-style subscription service have been swirling for some time.
  • (13) It is trying to get people to pay for music too: it’s launching its own Spotify rival, YouTube Music Key, with a similar model of a free, ad-supported tier then a £9.99 monthly subscription with more features.
  • (14) YouTube Music Key will sit alongside parent company Google’s existing subscription music service, Google Play Music All Access.
  • (15) Netflix is the most popular film subscription website in the US, with more than 25 million users in its domestic market, Canada and Latin America.
  • (16) Last month, the Sunday Telegraph distributed 72,779 bulks and subscriptions accounted for 321,665 copies.
  • (17) Sales are driven by annual subscriptions, rather than casual purchases – it gets cash up front.
  • (18) We have got a broadcast ecology here that works, the licence fee funded BBC, advertiser-funded services, subscription services as well.
  • (19) "In Midcounties, we are setting up a campaigns fund that will replace the subscription we previously paid to the Co-operative party.
  • (20) It elicited howls of outrage from readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, insulting Ensley, and wishing the newspaper would not even mention the scandal.

Subscription


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of subscribing.
  • (n.) That which is subscribed.
  • (n.) A paper to which a signature is attached.
  • (n.) The signature attached to a paper.
  • (n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
  • (n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
  • (n.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.
  • (n.) Submission; obedience.
  • (n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
  • (n.) A method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) OnLive launched in 2010 and now offers over 200 titles via a subscription-based model.
  • (2) Streaming and subscription revenues rose by more than 50% over the past year to reach $1.1bn, helping overall sales of recorded music in Europe grow for the first time in 12 years, according to figures published yesterday.
  • (3) The Economist, which has just launched a single-copy subscription service and reached an undisclosed settlement with oil tycoon Gennady Timchenko in July, saw UK sales rise 2.6% year on year to 187,341.
  • (4) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
  • (5) A review of efforts to formulate basic medical journal lists and a report of a survey of subscriptions held in academic health science libraries is presented.
  • (6) The Conservative MP calling for the BBC licence fee to be replaced with a voluntary subscription is expecting a response to his request for a review of the matter from the culture secretary by the middle of the week.
  • (7) YouView – a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva and TalkTalk – aims to replace Freeview as a subscription-free interactive TV service to rival pay-TV giants BSkyB and Virgin Media.
  • (8) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
  • (9) Globally, 20m people paid to use subscription music services in 2012, according to another industry body, the IFPI, which has highlighted streaming's impact in Sweden and Norway as a sign of bright times ahead for other countries.
  • (10) The transport of taurocholate across the brush-border membranes was stimulated in the presence of Na(+) compared with the presence of K(+); stimulation was about 11-fold in the presence of a NaCl gradient (Na(o)>Na(i)), where the subscripts refer to ;outside' and ;inside' respectively, and 4-fold under equilibrium conditions for Na(+) (Na(o)=Na(i)).
  • (11) Nature , one of the world's leading cross-disciplinary scientific journals and owned by the publishing group Macmillan, charges subscriptions for access to its suite of magazines and websites.
  • (12) Speculation about YouTube's plans for a Spotify-style subscription service have been swirling for some time.
  • (13) It is trying to get people to pay for music too: it’s launching its own Spotify rival, YouTube Music Key, with a similar model of a free, ad-supported tier then a £9.99 monthly subscription with more features.
  • (14) YouTube Music Key will sit alongside parent company Google’s existing subscription music service, Google Play Music All Access.
  • (15) Netflix is the most popular film subscription website in the US, with more than 25 million users in its domestic market, Canada and Latin America.
  • (16) Last month, the Sunday Telegraph distributed 72,779 bulks and subscriptions accounted for 321,665 copies.
  • (17) Sales are driven by annual subscriptions, rather than casual purchases – it gets cash up front.
  • (18) We have got a broadcast ecology here that works, the licence fee funded BBC, advertiser-funded services, subscription services as well.
  • (19) "In Midcounties, we are setting up a campaigns fund that will replace the subscription we previously paid to the Co-operative party.
  • (20) It elicited howls of outrage from readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, insulting Ensley, and wishing the newspaper would not even mention the scandal.