Productive vs Distributive - What's the difference?
productive | distributive | Related terms |
capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile
yielding good or useful results; constructive
of, or relating to the creation of goods or services
(linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) consistently applicable to any of an open set of words
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(medicine) of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract
(medicine) of inflammation, producing new tissue
Relating to distribution.
Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
(mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
(logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
(grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
Productive is a related term of distributive.
As adjectives the difference between productive and distributive
is that productive is capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile while distributive is relating to distribution.As a noun distributive is
(grammar) a distributive adjective or pronoun.productive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Moreover, this relationship is a productive one, in the sense that when new Adjectives are created (e.g. ginormous'' concocted out of ''gigantic'' and ''enormous''), then the corresponding Adverb form (in this case ''ginormously'') can also be used. And in those exceptional cases where Adverbs do not end in ''-ly'', they generally have the same form as the corresponding Adjective, as with ''hard'', ''fast , etc.
Usage notes
In English, the plural suffix “-es” is productive' because it can be appended to an open set of words (singular nouns ending in sibilants). Thus, if a new word with that pattern becomes an English noun (e.g. *''examplex''), it would have a default plural (e.g. *''examplexes'') because “-es” is ' productive .Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* unproductive * nonproductive * destructive * baneful * ruinousReferences
* * ----distributive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- distributive justice
- (Jonathan Swift)
- If function f'' is distributive with respect to function ''g , then .
- If the operation is distributive with respect to the operation , then .
- a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as "each", "either", or "every"
- a distributive numeral, such as Latin "bini" (two by two)