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Relating vs Description - What's the difference?

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Relating is a related term of description.


As nouns the difference between relating and description

is that relating is the act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation while description is a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

As a verb relating

is .

relating

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
  • Such a dynamic, biological concept of consciousness as reflecting ever-shifting 'global mappings' in the brain, ceaseless relatings of current perceptions to past mappings, has been articulated with great force recently, by Gerald Edelman.
  • * 2008 , Stephen Kemmis, Tracey J. Smith, Enabling praxis: challenges for education
  • What makes a complex practice like education or medicine distinctive is the content of sayings, doings and relatings characteristic of the practice

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    description

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
  • The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
  • (biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
  • The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.

    Synonyms

    * (characteristics) sort, kind, type, variety

    See also

    * synopsis * interpretation

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