descriptive : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')
  qualifying adjective.
  

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• that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures.

Webster 1913

• noun the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
  ethnography.
  

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• noun a subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies
  nonrestrictive clause.
  

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• noun the geometry of properties that remain invariant under projection
  projective geometry.
  

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• that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes.

Webster 1913

• noun a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics
  

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• noun a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments
  

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