Similar words: description, nondescript, prescription, inscription, conscription, proscription, transcription, circumscription. Meaning: [dɪ'skrɪptɪv] adj. 1. serving to describe or inform or characterized by description 2. concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents 3. describing the structure of a language.
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(61) Furthermore, an adequate characterisation of spoken language requires the integration of descriptive frameworks from different branches of linguistics and psychology.
(62) Warton shows himself even more strikingly to be of a new school when he turns to the descriptive work of James Thomson.
(63) Other mechanisms for trapping prey have similarly descriptive names: snap, suction, lobster pot, flypaper(Sentencedict.com ), loop.
(64) The research brings together academics from the countries included in the study to provide descriptive material on decentralisation for an edited publication.
(65) It's a useful addition to make to your command centre as the text links will be more descriptive than icons.
(66) These terms are purely descriptive, but they are necessary to cope with observed phenomena, especially in psychopathology.
(67) It should be as descriptive as the number of characters used will allow.
(68) The results will be of interest for descriptive and theoretical reasons.
(69) The class distinctions we employ, you would maintain, are descriptive not pejorative.
(70) Promotional literature Brochures and tariffs should be well designed, colourful and descriptive.
(71) The descriptive design is used for community surveys such as need assessment projects.
(72) Little other than isolated records can be established from most of these, although there are some fine descriptive passages.
(73) Being primarily an ornithologist, most of these quotations refer to birds, but there are passing descriptive botanical records.
(74) A descriptive list of the works of art is available at the ticket counters.
(75) The title should be as descriptive as possible, and can be up to 60 printing characters long, including spaces.
(76) A major pattern of disagreement centres on the distribution of what were loosely termed the descriptive and actional frames of the story.
(77) Beatrice Webb and Erving Goffman for mastery of skills in descriptive sociology.
(78) It is possible to identify three main types of historical writing - descriptive, narrative and analytical.
(79) In Britain two examples of cohort studies provide descriptive accounts of patterns of infant care in urban communities.
(80) In descriptive terms the argument is that decision-making is always incremental.
(81) First, such classification can provide us with useful descriptive information about political systems.
(82) The book contains many fine descriptive passages about everyday life in China.
(83) The music is descriptive rather than programmatic.
(84) the descriptive passages in the novel.
(85) Note: This is a descriptive, not evaluative introduction.
(86) An added descriptive comment or explanatory note.
(87) Your words are very descriptive, I understand exactly.
(88) He teaches descriptive linguistics at a university.
(89) The United States missiles have picturesque and descriptive names.
(90) Descriptive ecology is a dry subject.
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