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Like Conway and Wolpert, he put his descriptive name into the titles of his work, not just the body.
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Euclid’s Elements is full of common, descriptive names, even though he was drawing on discoveries made by many different people.
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Every field has terms of art, but when those terms are descriptive, they are easier to memorize.
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By now, descriptive alt texts should be best practice for all content teams.
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A number of them — and I think it’s either misleading or not very descriptive — will call it the “bystander effect,” but that doesn’t tell you whether the bystander effect is to increase or decrease reporting.
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She avoids an exhaustively descriptive definition because she opposes condemning all novels based on the flaws of some novels.
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When you mail it in or bring it back, you include descriptive words that would lead a consumer to your work.
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And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.
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The name is descriptive: they are extremely intense bursts of gamma rays, the highest energy form of light.
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It was descriptive, prescriptive, and exemplary in its clarity.
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His Characters, in imitation of Theophrastus, is a work of established excellence, and descriptive of the manners of that age.
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As Mrs. Armine looked at him she remembered the descriptive phrase that set him apart from all the people of Luxor.
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In one of them, descriptive of antediluvial history, is a painting of Lamech shooting Cain with a bow and arrow.
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These things are beyond my knowledge, which it would perhaps be more descriptive to call ignorance.
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Save incidentally—for he did send descriptive articles to The Daily Gazette—he was not out on professional business.
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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to descriptive, such as: definitive, detailed, eloquent, expressive, identifying, and illuminating.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.