Figurative vs Schematic - What's the difference?
figurative | schematic |
Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
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Metaphorically so called
With many figures of speech
Emblematic; representative
* Hooker
* J. A. Symonds
represented simply
sketchy, incomplete
* 1902 , , Varieties of Religious Experience ,
relating to a schema
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A drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.
As adjectives the difference between figurative and schematic
is that figurative is metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs" while schematic is represented simply.As a noun schematic is
a drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.figurative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This, they will say, was figurative , and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
- They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.
Usage notes
* Said of language, expression, etc.Antonyms
* literalDerived terms
* figurativeness * figurativelyExternal links
* * ----schematic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Dr. Starbuck gives an interesting, and it seems to me a true, account -- so far as conceptions so schematic can claim truth at all...
- Given the terminology we have introduced here, we can say that all of the bracketed phrases in (3) above are of the schematic form (4) below:
(4) Specifier + Head + Complement
Now, we have already argued in the case of Noun Phrases that a Head Noun together with its Complement form an N-bar; and that this N-bar together with its Specifier ( = Determiner) forms an N-double-bar.
Noun
(wikipedia schematic) (en noun)- I'll have to study the schematics for the new integrated circuit before I can create a good layout.