descriptive account
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdescriptiveandaccount
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descriptive
adjective
uk/dɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/us/dɪˈskrɪp.t̬ɪv/
describing something, especially in a detailed, ...
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account
noun
uk/əˈkaʊnt/us/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofdescriptiveandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As a practical,descriptiveaccount, this study is highly successful.
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Ignoring more extreme cases of infrequency can distort adescriptiveaccountof the language.
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However, this was only adescriptiveaccountand lacked experimental control.
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Our overall goal was to present adescriptiveaccountof children's earliest encounters with apologies.
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A betterdescriptiveaccountis available in the conceptual development literature.
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These claims are well within the scope of adescriptiveaccount.
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In addition to being a gooddescriptiveaccount, this chapter addresses questions of considerable theoretical importance.
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Instead, adescriptiveaccountof the positive and negative effects of caregiving on the well-being of supporters is presented.
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It gives an excellentdescriptiveaccountof the industry.
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It's not entirely clear that emergence theory actually explains the problematic data under discussion, or merely offers a differentdescriptiveaccountof them.
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I begin with adescriptiveaccountof each before considering some of the wider implications that, together, these two books raise.
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As hisdescriptiveaccountunfolds, it is not merely a role demanding exquisite skills but also one that is loaded with risk.
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Expected utility theory, for instance, was initially used as adescriptiveaccountof microeconomic behavior - not as a prescriptive benchmark for evaluating choice.
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The book is beautifully presented and contains a richlydescriptiveaccountof a survey of costume dating mostly from the mid to late 1980s.
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Research utilising phenomenology will provide health professionals with an interpretive anddescriptiveaccountof the women's experiences during treatment decision-making.
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This is adescriptiveaccountwith some explanatory dimensions; but it is not a philosophical account - much less one that fulfills the program of a strong hermeneutical philosophy.
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What we are left with, however, is nonetheless a largelydescriptiveaccount, and one constrained by its almost total dependence on formal readings of architectural organization.
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In other words, these two chapters are more philosophical basis for the intuitive anddescriptiveaccountof the previous chapters.
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Chapters 11-12 attempt to give the intuitive anddescriptiveaccountof the technological pattern a measure of systematic firmness and clarity (57).
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