What's the difference between verbatim and verbose?

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.

Verbose


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (2) There was significant agreement between the qualitative classification and the quantitative rating assessments of verbosity.
  • (3) It has been established that verbosity, vagueness of definition and inadequate differentiation of the main and secondary signs are objectively manifested in the schizophrenic patients in an increase of a relative richness of vocabulary and of the proportion of rarely used words.
  • (4) Verbal expression may range from total lack of language to verbosity with echolalia; comprehension and language use are invariably impaired.
  • (5) Two studies were conducted to develop measures of verbosity in elderly people and to determine the social and psychological correlates of verbose speech.
  • (6) Interrater reliability was established at .76 and .70 for the two measures of verbosity.
  • (7) In addition to the previously found associations between verbosity and personality and social variables, higher nonverbal intellectual performance scores obtained in the early adult years combined with poorer current nonverbal scores predicted verbosity in late life.
  • (8) I know what six hours of suppressed verbosity sounds like: it sounds like a heart breaking.
  • (9) A tendency for allusive thinkers to be more verbose than non-allusive thinkers was also noted.
  • (10) Nicknamed "Save Rome", that decree had become so bogged down in a verbose and venomous parliamentary process that Matteo Renzi's new administration withdrew it and said it would find a new way of helping the Rome authorities plug an €816m hole in their budget.
  • (11) Four older epileptic patients with long histories of left complex partial seizures were verbose.
  • (12) Twitter isn't for the verbose: Marcel Proust could never have tweeted.
  • (13) Control subjects demonstrated superior performance on all receptive language and child verbosity measures despite their younger age.
  • (14) The multiple correlations of these deficit measures with 15 of the Sixteen Personality Factor scales and a measure of verbosity were determined in a sample of 100 schizophrenics.
  • (15) A quantitative examination of the knowledge base of BLOOD using real laboratory data from 58 patients diagnosed as having iron deficiency anemia clearly revealed the verbosity of the knowledge base, and proved that it was effective for obtaining a group of essential diagnostic rules.
  • (16) Upon reflection, it appears that at this stageI may have been worried I did not have enough material for a 20-month serialisation as some of the story-telling does seem unnecessarily verbose, but some while later with Mr Micawber out of prison, I left my job and walked to Dover to live with my great-aunt, whom I had never once met seen since the day of my birth.
  • (17) They allowed unnecessary verbosity from the witnesses.
  • (18) Meanwhile, the leadership’s surreally verbose outrider Ken Livingstone is characteristically upfront: “People” – and, obviously, he means his people – “have got a right to a candidate they agree with,” he says .
  • (19) While the traditional music press, most notably the NME, became ever more verbose and sullen and rarefied in response - this was a time when it couldn’t review the new Shakin’ Stevens single without mentioning Roland Barthes, Wyndham Lewis and Ingmar Bergman’s Sommaren med Monika - Smash Hits truly understood what pop music was about.
  • (20) Verbosity, however, may permit inferences regarding potential verbal behavior.