Evaluation vs Descriptive - What's the difference?
evaluation | descriptive |
An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
(mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
(computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.
Of or relating to description.
(grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy'' in ''the heavy dictionary ).
(linguistics) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
(science, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
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As nouns the difference between evaluation and descriptive
is that evaluation is an assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation while descriptive is an adjective (or other descriptive word.As an adjective descriptive is
of or relating to description.evaluation
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(wikipedia evaluation) (en noun)Derived terms
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* evaluate * revaluation * valuationdescriptive
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}