Chronicle vs Characterize - What's the difference?
chronicle | characterize |
A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To record in or as in a chronicle.
to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative)
to determine the characteristics of
* {{quote-book, passage=This glossary includes terminology used in coastal science, engineering, geology, management, nearshore oceanography and the technologies that characterize , measure, describe or quantify the physical properties, processes and changes of the coastal zone.
, title=Department of Ecology Publication No. 98-105
, chapter=Glossary of Coastal Terminology
, author=Brian Voigt
, year=1998
As verbs the difference between chronicle and characterize
is that chronicle is to record in or as in a chronicle while characterize is to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative).As a noun chronicle
is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.chronicle
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Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle .Synonyms
* (account of events and when they happened) annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, versionVerb
Synonyms
* (record in a chronicle) recordcharacterize
English
(Characterization)Alternative forms
* characteriseVerb
(characteriz)citation
