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Shaping vs Determinative - What's the difference?

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Shaping is a related term of determinative.


As nouns the difference between shaping and determinative

is that shaping is the action of the verb to shape while determinative is (linguistics) an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

As a verb shaping

is .

As an adjective determinative is

determining (gloss) something.

shaping

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of the verb to shape .
  • * 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
    • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
  • (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    determinative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
  • (grammar) A word that typically functions as a determiner in a noun phrase; many also have other functions.determiner in Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.

    • Synonyms

    (ideogram) taxogram

    Related terms

    * determiner

    See also

    * article * demonstrative

    External links

    * ("determinative" on Wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Determining (gloss) something.
  • * 1905 January 21, Ch. Kent, opinion, New York Foundling Hospital ''v.'' Gatti'', Arizona [Territorial] Supreme Court, as reported in, 1907, ''The Lawyers Reports Annotated , new series, volume 7, page 313 [http://books.google.com/books?id=N6m2AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA313&dq=determinative]:
    • This proceeding, though not presenting questions difficult of determination, or points of law that are novel, is unusual in many of its features, and is important as determinative of the disposition and welfare of a number of little children, ignorant of the contest that is being carried on in regard to them.
  • * 2009 July, , Financial Instruments , ISBN 9781905590698, page 617 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nwV-hbTHxeMC&pg=PA617&dq=determinative]:
    • An entity does not automatically conclude that any observed transaction price is determinative of fair value.

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