Description vs Prescriptive - What's the difference?
description | prescriptive |
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
(biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
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As a noun description
is a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.As an adjective prescriptive is
of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.description
English
(wikipedia description)Noun
(en noun)- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.
Synonyms
* (characteristics) sort, kind, type, varietyExternal links
* *See also
* synopsis * interpretationAnagrams
* ----prescriptive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- For one thing, spoken language tends to be less subjected to prescriptive
pressures than written language, and hence is a less artificial medium of com-
munication (written language is often a kind of 'censored' version of spoken
language). [...]