Literal vs Representative - What's the difference?
literal | representative |
Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
* Hooker
Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
* Johnson
(of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_%28logic%29]
Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.
One who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation.
A member of a legislative or governing body who represents a constituency.
One that is taken as typical of its class.
(US, politics) A member of the .
Company agent who visits potential purchasers, salesman.
As adjectives the difference between literal and representative
is that literal is exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical while representative is .As a noun literal
is (programming) a value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.literal
Alternative forms
* litteral (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.
- a middle course between the rigour of literal translation and the liberty of paraphrasts
- A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
- a literal equation
- The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers.
Antonyms
* (exactly as stated) figurativeNoun
(en noun)See also
* constant * prime formulaExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----representative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Are you sure this paper is representative of your child's writing?
- If you took all the fools out of the legislature, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore. — Texas State Senator Carl Parker.
Noun
(en noun)- I will send a representative to work out the details of the contract.
- She served four terms as representative of her local at the national union convention.
- All representatives face re-election every two years.