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Drafting vs Syntax - What's the difference?

drafting | syntax |

As nouns the difference between drafting and syntax

is that drafting is the act or process of producing a technical drawing, or draft while syntax is syntax.

As a verb drafting

is .

drafting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of producing a technical drawing, or draft.
  • The art of producing technical drawings.
  • A profession, usually related to making technical drawings for architecture, engineering, or manufacturing.
  • The practice among ground vehicle drivers or cyclists of following in a close line to reduce wind resistance.
  • syntax

    English

    (wikipedia syntax)

    Noun

    (syntaxes)
  • A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
  • *
  •   The incorporation of a rule of V MOVEMENT into our description of English Syntax turns out to have fundamental theoretical implications for our overall Theory of Grammar: it means that we are no longer able to posit that the syntactic structure of a sentence can be described in terms of a single Phrase-marker representing its S-structure. For, the postulation of a rule of V-MOVEMENT means that we must recognise at least two different levels of structure in our Theory of Grammar — namely, a level of D-structure'' (formerly known as ‘Deep Structure?) which serves as input to the rule, and a separate level of ''S-structure which is formed by application of the rule.
  • (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
  • (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.
  • Usage notes

    The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.)

    Derived terms

    * morphosyntax * syntactic * syntactician

    See also

    * grammar * morphology ----