Tome vs Compendium - What's the difference?
tome | compendium |
One in a series of volumes.
A large or scholarly book.
A short, complete summary; an abstract.
A list or collection of various items.
* 2008 , Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
# (label) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
As a proper noun tome
is thomas (given name).As a noun compendium is
a short, complete summary; an abstract.tome
English
Noun
(en noun)- The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.
Anagrams
* ----compendium
English
(wikipedia compendium)Noun
(en-noun)- It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.