descriptive : Idioms & Phrases


descriptive adjective

  • noun an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')
    qualifying adjective.
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Descriptive anatomy

  • that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures.
Webster 1913

descriptive anthropology

  • noun the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
    ethnography.
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descriptive clause

  • noun a subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies
    nonrestrictive clause.
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Descriptive geometry

  • noun the geometry of properties that remain invariant under projection
    projective geometry.
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  • that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes.
Webster 1913

descriptive grammar

  • noun a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics
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descriptive linguistics

  • noun a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments
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