What's the difference between vignette and vinette?
Vignette
Definition:
(n.) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
(n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
(v. t.) To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(2) These problems are illustrated by a clinical vignette, and alternative approaches are explored.
(3) In this investigation, reanalysis of responses to case vignettes obtained from 436 psychologists, psychiatrists, and internists revealed that on the issue of confidentiality management, these health care providers discriminate among cases involving: Premeditated harm to others, socially irresponsible acts with possible dire consequences to self or others, and minor theft.
(4) A significant number of head-injured subjects also made errors confusing positive and negative emotions and errors interpreting emotionally toned vignettes.
(5) The Guardian witnessed one desperate vignette in Gevgeliya on Saturday: a Syrian woman in her 40s asking a fellow traveller for money to buy shoes as hers were in tatters.
(6) The subjects were undergraduate students (male = 240; female = 240) who responded to a vignette describing a sexual interaction between a father and daughter.
(7) Each vignette depicted a 1000-g birth weight infant, currently 7 weeks old and ready for discharge.
(8) Subjects read one of eight case vignettes about hypothetical stimulus persons and then completed verbal report inventories to assess attitudes.
(10) The rating of acceptability by parents either in groups of five or alone of behavior management techniques (BMT) displayed in videotaped vignettes was studied.
(11) Comprising a series of short films (critics often term them "vignettes", which makes Louie sound far more po-faced than it is), interspersed with bursts of Louis's stand-up, the show sits closer to experimental film in its visual style and sensibility.
(12) The article also illustrates the system's use with three case management vignettes involving child protective services, the chronically mentally ill, and older adults.
(13) Our seven clinical vignettes illustrate different mechanisms of inappropriate admissions to psychiatric wards and the circumstances and outcome of such admissions, with emphasis on the shared responsibility of psychiatric and nonpsychiatric physicians, the financial consequences, and the implications of such admissions on the profession's public image.
(14) One-hundred sixty-eight mental health, welfare, and juvenile court personnel from six different locales within a state rated (a) the "amenability to treatment" of four case vignettes involving juvenile offenders and (b) the effectiveness of a variety of services for youth.
(15) This vignette, although far from complete, outlines some of the important works that have contributed to the evolution of cardioplegic techniques.
(16) Completed questionnaires, with three vignettes each, were returned by 495 respondents.
(17) Based on two clinical vignettes, an attempt at reconstruction is proposed, in which the narcissistic aspects of this pathology are emphasized.
(18) A case vignette is used to illustrate these processes.
(19) Clinical vignettes illustrate how de-idealization by proxy may aid detachment from childhood love-objects and allow healthy partial identification with the same-sex parent.
(20) Insight into nurses' perceptions and understanding of problem solving was gained by interviewing 116 nurses using vignettes of clinical problem solving.