adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The title should be as descriptive as possible, and can be up to 60 printing characters long, including spaces.
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It should be as descriptive as the number of characters used will allow.
more
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It's a useful addition to make to your command centre as the text links will be more descriptive than icons.
purely
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Have been growing less and less interested in titles that are other than purely descriptive .
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This last category Gumperz describes as somewhat more difficult to specify in purely descriptive terms.
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This fact alone suggests that a purely descriptive approach to first degree courses is likely to be unproductive or excruciatingly boring.
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These terms are purely descriptive , but they are necessary to cope with observed phenomena, especially in psychopathology.
■ NOUN
account
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In Britain two examples of cohort studies provide descriptive accounts of patterns of infant care in urban communities.
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It pays most attention to interviews, descriptive accounts , biographies, and autobiographies.
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But it also involves a descriptive account of human nature and institutions.
name
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The high oil content lending black oats their descriptive name made them a traditional feed for horses.
passage
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Little other than isolated records can be established from most of these, although there are some fine descriptive passages .
phrase
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Fiona would never jock him off, in racing's descriptive phrase .
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Click the mouse on an icon, and a descriptive phrase appears in a box next to the icons.
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What is more, proper names are normally introduced into discourse by means of descriptive phrases .
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In particular, contingent entities can not be individuated in an absolute sense by any kind of descriptive phrase .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A descriptive listing of 116 bed-and-breakfast inns is available.
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The book contains many fine descriptive passages about everyday life in China.
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When you write your paragraph, include as many descriptive details as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Applications engineering is a title which is descriptive .
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Because they describe an objective reality, descriptive core beliefs are simply valid or invalid.
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Much of our existing knowledge has been gathered from descriptive studies which lack controls and proper sampling procedures.
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The descriptive design is used for community surveys such as need assessment projects.
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The board had decided on another candidate, an orthodox pathologist with predominantly clinical and descriptive interests and not an experimentalist.
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These are examples of the many questions about politics that require explanation, not mere descriptive facts.