Perusal vs Cite - What's the difference?
perusal | cite |
The act of perusing; studying something carefully.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
(informal) A citation.
As nouns the difference between perusal and cite
is that perusal is the act of perusing; studying something carefully while cite is wedge, short spear or stick.As an adjective cite is
full, brim-full.perusal
English
Noun
citation, passage=These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.}}
cite
English
Verb
(cit)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
Derived terms
* citationSee also
* attest * quoteNoun
(en noun)- We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.