Blog vs. Essay

Blognoun

(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.) Entries (also known as postings) typically appear in reverse chronological order.

Blognoun

(Internet) An individual post to a blog.

Blogverb

(blogging) To contribute to a blog.

Blognoun

a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies

Blog

A blog (a truncation of ) is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.

Essaynoun

(authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.

Essaynoun

(obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.

Essaynoun

An attempt.

Essaynoun

A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.

Essayverb

To try.

Essayverb

(intransitive) To move forth, as into battle.

Essaynoun

An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

Essaynoun

A composition treating of any particular subject; - usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.

Essaynoun

An assay. See Assay, n.

Essayverb

To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.

Essayverb

To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.

Essaynoun

an analytic or interpretive literary composition

Essaynoun

a tentative attempt

Essayverb

make an effort or attempt;

Essayverb

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal.