What's the difference between superintendent and supervisor?

Superintendent


Definition:

  • (a.) Overseeing; superintending.
  • (n.) One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ripa can be used with approval from an officer of superintendant level or above, and does not require the police to disclose their intentions to snoop on journalists.
  • (2) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
  • (3) However, Superintendent Garry McCarthy told the Chicago SunTimes that the tit-for-tat insult trading on social media was ill-advised .
  • (4) Detective Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service.
  • (5) In fact it was led by Detective Superintendent Richard Chitty (who died in 1983).
  • (6) The first Berlin specialist was a Dr. Jüngling, a pupil of Mayrhofer, at the "Friedrichshain Hospital", the first medical superintendents were appointed in 1956.
  • (7) The results of the study provide practical information, ideas and considerations for administrators, curriculum coordinators, superintendents and other responsible for residential staff development.
  • (8) It provides a measure of relief and reassurance.” Five of the students who had been under quarantine or monitoring returned to school on Monday, and the remaining students will be back in school by Tuesday, Dallas Independent School District superintendent Mike Miles said Monday.
  • (9) Kavanagh defended Chief Superintendent Sandra Looby, the Tottenham police chief who has been criticised in the media for reportedly flying to Florida on Saturday, just before the rioting broke out.
  • (10) Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of New York's department of financial services, said last month that he intends to introduce regulation for bitcoins later this year, making New York the first state to do so.
  • (11) Despite having sacked the police superintendent , Garry McCarthy, on Monday and ordered the formation of a taskforce into police accountability, questions continue to swirl about what Emanuel knew, and when he knew it – questions that at best raise doubts about his grip over his own city and at worst threaten to impugn his integrity.
  • (12) He said doctors should be allowed to prescribe nevirapine in consultation with hospital superintendents.
  • (13) Savile had keys to the high-security hospital, accommodation and unrestricted access due to his relationship with the medical superintendent who hoped his fame would improve public perception of the hospital.
  • (14) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
  • (15) She is shellshocked, wearing a neck-brace while facing our old friends DS Arnott (played by Martin Compston) and superintendent Hastings (Adrian Dunbar).
  • (16) Dr Sudha Dev Kota, the medical superintendent at the hospital, said the seven doctors at the small facility housed in bare brick buildings had treated more than 200 people since Saturday.
  • (17) Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the gunmen opened fire on the group in retaliation for an earlier shooting in which one of them was slightly wounded.
  • (18) At the end of the aborted trial, the Met's Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell expressed his regrets: "This current investigation has identified, ever more clearly, how the initial inquiry failed the family and wider public.
  • (19) The constitutional role of the law officers is to superintend the CPS.
  • (20) Chief Superintendent Alan McCrum said: "Last night we saw a number of people on the streets who were intent on engaging in violence.

Supervisor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
  • (n.) A spectator; a looker-on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
  • (2) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
  • (3) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
  • (4) We reviewed the routines for providing information on drugs, and for training in the use of drugs and aids to medication in hospital and nursing homes by interviewing 11 ward supervisors.
  • (5) The authors compared supervisors' global and specific item ratings of psychiatric residents' performance in each of three years of training with ratings of these applicants prior to their admission to the program.
  • (6) Mentoring relationships experienced by Army Nurse Corps officers in head nurse or nursing supervisor roles were examined via a survey questionnaire.
  • (7) Respondents' perceptions of their supervisors' style adaptability were positively and significantly correlated with their perceptions of work-unit effectiveness.
  • (8) 34% of the house officers had an appointed supervisor compared with 54% in primary care.
  • (9) Later they were also assigned to interdisciplinary inpatient teams led by community psychiatry supervisors.
  • (10) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
  • (11) The leader of such a supervisors' group can be more helpful if he will see himself as a facilitator of essentially peer group observations rather than a transference interpreter or group teacher.
  • (12) Data published by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) showed that the banks were only forced to simulate losses on sovereign debt that they held for trading purposes and not for bonds they might hold to maturity on their banking books.
  • (13) The most pronounced finding was the importance of supervisors being pharmacists: satisfaction on five of six satisfaction subscales was related to whether one's supervisor was a pharmacist.
  • (14) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
  • (15) Administrators, supervisors, and staff must be involved in this important process to attract and retain new as well as experienced nurses.
  • (16) Mohamed Saleh, the security supervisor for the Al Masry club, claimed that he too noticed people in the crowd whom he described as "strangers".
  • (17) Variables within the referring analyst, patient, candidate, and supervisor are examined in their interaction with the circumstances of the assessment enterprise.
  • (18) A nursery supervisor with smear- and culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and a productive cough exposed 528 newborns over a three-month period before her disease was diagnosed.
  • (19) Combining the data from cutaneous malignant melanoma over both sexes and both registries the occupations with the highest incidence ratios (expressed as a percentage) were: airline pilots, incidence ratio (IR) = 273, (95% confidence limits 118-538); finance and insurance brokers IR = 245 (140-398); professional accountants IR = 208 (134-307); dentists IR = 207 (133-309); inspectors and supervisors in transport IR = 206 (133-304); pharmacists IR = 198 (115-318); professionals not elsewhere classified IR = 196 (155-243); judges IR = 196 (126-289); doctors IR = 188 (140-248); university teachers IR = 188 (110-302); and chemists IR = 188 (111-296).
  • (20) The radical, yet promising approach of eliminating evening and night shift nursing supervisors is discussed.