An early Greek fable ascribed counted among Aesop's Fables compares the rose to the amaranth to illustrate the difference in fleeting and everlasting beauty:

The American Heritage Dictionary ( 2000 ) uses the following two sentences to illustrate the difference, noting that the distinction " is useful in principle, but it is by no means widely observed, and considerable variation in usage occurs at all levels.

To illustrate how one may use Newton's formula in actual practice, consider the first few terms of the Fibonacci sequence f = 2, 2, 4 ... One can find a polynomial that reproduces these values, by first computing a difference table, and then substituting the differences which correspond to x < sub > 0 </ sub > ( underlined ) into the formula as follows,

These encoders can be placed before for binary data source, but have been placed after to illustrate the conceptual difference between digital and analog signals involved with digital modulation.

The weasel program is instead meant to illustrate the difference between non-random cumulative selection, and random single-step selection.

To illustrate what a difference this can make, consider the simple task of adding two groups of 10 numbers together.

To illustrate this difference between himself and Johnston, Parfit makes use of an example of a brain-damaged patient who becomes irreversibly unconscious.

In developing his argument that natural selection can explain the complex adaptations of organisms, Dawkins ' first concern is to illustrate the difference between the potential for the development of complexity as a result of pure randomness, as opposed to that of randomness coupled with cumulative selection.

These trees make the difference between main and subordinate clauses very clear, and they also illustrate well the difference between argument and adjunct clauses.

To illustrate the difference between Improv and other systems, consider the simple task of calculating the total sales for a product, given unit sales per month and unit prices.

" ( shouted repeatedly in a phone exchange between Rod Tidwell and Jerry Maguire ), " You complete me ", " Help me help you ", and " You had me at ' hello '" ( said by Renée Zellweger's Dorothy Boyd after a lengthy romantic plea by Jerry Maguire ), and " Kwan ", a word used by Cuba Gooding, Jr .' s Tidwell meaning love, respect, community, and money, also spelled " quan " and " quawn ", to illustrate the difference between himself and other football players: " Other football players may have the coin, but they won't have the ' Quan '".

To illustrate the nature of rank correlation, and its difference from linear correlation, consider the following four pairs of numbers ( x, y ):

Hofstede's criticism of Maslow's pyramid as ethnocentric may stem from the fact that Maslow ’ s hierarchy of needs neglects to illustrate and expand upon the difference between the social and intellectual needs of those raised in individualistic societies and those raised in collectivist societies.

Bina Agarwal and Pradeep Panda illustrate that a woman's property status ( such as owning a house or land ) directly and significantly reduces her chances of experiencing domestic violence, while employment makes little difference.

Among these, Sonnet 151 has been characterised as " bawdy " and is used to illustrate the difference between the spiritual love for the Fair Youth and the sexual love for the Dark Lady.

A few examples will illustrate this difference in the method of interpretation between the older and the younger Halakah.

An example often used to illustrate the difference between reliability and validity in the experimental sciences involves a common bathroom scale.

These groups do, however, readily illustrate the difference between the two lattices.

A diamond cutter, as a profession, can be used to illustrate the difference of cost and the value chain.

Athorism is an attempt to illustrate through absurdity that there is no logical difference between disbelieving any particular religion.

To illustrate the difference, the precomposed characters are here displayed in green and the decomposed base letters in black ; depending on your browser, the decomposed combining diacritics may be shown in orange or black.

Suwa & Hara ( 2007 ) discovered that 5 of 27 cases of hikikomori had a high-functioning pervasive developmental disorder ( HPDD ) and used a vignette to illustrate the difference between primary hikikomori ( without any obvious mental disorder ) and hikikomori with HPDD ; furthermore, 10 out of 27 had primary hikikomori.

Another term for the Edo-era hatamoto was, sometimes rendered as " direct Shogunal hatamoto ", which serves to illustrate the difference between them and the preceding generation of hatamoto who served various lords.

To illustrate, a diving beaked whale may be surfacing from a deep dive and must pass vertically through varying received sound levels.

This is a sound sample from a commercial recording, used to illustrate Wire's sound during its early period.

Place names in the coastal regions also illustrate the rising land: there are inland places named ' island ', ' skerry ', ' rock ', ' point ' and ' sound '.

In the next scene, as if to illustrate this point, the sound track ceases and the images are overlaid by Godard's personal narration.

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# a free recording of high enough fidelity and performance quality to appropriately illustrate the sound of the instruments in this work could not be found.

They put on Sean Connery or Jimmy Hill masks, one wields either talcum powder or a beehive and the other a pair of swimming trunks or a bra, and enact a little dance to some traditional jazz punctuated by the sound of a breeze, to illustrate " a pensioner being attacked by some police officers ", etc.

FFTs can be run to provide graphs that illustrate details about the timbral structure of a sound which might not be initially apparent to the ear.

( G = Grimm's law ; V = Verner's law ) Note that the pairs of words used to illustrate sound shifts must be cognates ; they need not be semantic equivalents.

* It illustrates an educational article that specifically discusses the sound and style of Iron Maiden's music, with this sample being used to illustrate the style of their more recent music.

* It illustrates an educational article that specifically discusses the sound and style of Iron Maiden's music, with this sample being used to illustrate several distinctive aspects of the band's style.

* It illustrates an educational article that specifically discusses the sound and style of Iron Maiden's music, with this sample being used to illustrate the distinct sound of Iron Maiden earlier in their career, shortly after Bruce Dickinson joined as lead singer.

It is used to illustrate the concept of taxable income elasticity ( that taxable income will change in response to changes in the rate of taxation ).

Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books / by Sir William Blackstone ... ; together with such notes of enduring value as have been published in the several English editions ; and also, a copious analysis of the contents ; and additional notes with references to English and American decisions and statutes, to date, which illustrate or change the law of the text ; also a full table of abbreviations and some considerations regarding the study of the law, by Thomas M. Cooley.

The foundation in a statement said the significant achievements of these two Laureates illustrate that transformational leadership truly can effect positive change and greatly improve people ’ s lives.

These curves illustrate the principle of diminishing marginal returns to a variable input ( not to be confused with diseconomies of scale which is a long term phenomenon in which all factors are allowed to change ).

The three curves illustrate that shifts along the same line indicate a change in Preload ( cardiology ) | preload, while shifts from one line to another indicate a change in afterload or contractility.

The following C code examples illustrate two threads that share a global integer i. The first thread uses busy-waiting to check for a change in the value of i:

This change is used to illustrate the corruption of the principles of the animals ' rebellion by Animal Farm's leader Napoleon.

BCC practices emerging in developing countries illustrate the role of the community, social acceptance, emotion, and emulation in personal change.

One example will suffice to illustrate the change in bathing procedures.

Dawkins intends this example to illustrate a common misunderstanding of evolutionary change, i. e. that DNA sequences or organic compounds such as proteins are the result of atoms randomly combining to form more complex structures.

Because distortion varies across a map, generally Tissot ’ s indicatrices ( plural of indicatrix ) are placed across a map to illustrate the spatial change in distortion.