Sentence examples for descriptive usage from inspiring English sources

This is an old argument over prescriptive versus descriptive usage, one that's not going away any time soon.

We illustrated this extended workflow with the usage of SubVIS for the descriptive use case above.

The statement that rights are claims is prescriptive for, not descriptive of, usage.

Depending on the grammarian's approach, a grammar can be prescriptive (i.e., provide rules for correct usage), descriptive (i.e., describe how a language is actually used), or generative (i.e., provide instructions for the production of an infinite number of sentences in a language).

(Note that strong modal fictionalists who take their theory to not be descriptive of current usage are unlikely to be tempted by the claim of analytic equivalence and will have to demur from Divers's timid fictionalist proposal, so they at least face an open question if they want the equivalent of a "possible worlds semantics" in Divers's rich sense).

Concurrently, descriptive tutorials for secondary usage of data are made available for basic bench scientists in Jupyter (jupyter.org) notebooks using the R (www.R-project.org) and Python (www.python.org) programming languages (Fig. 3).

Of course the debate over whether dictionaries should be prescriptive -- asserting that a word has relatively determined meanings and a proper usage; or descriptive, asserting that a word has shifting meanings determined by its popular use -- has been raging for several decades.

Demographic data from the records were analysed with the usage of descriptive statistics.

Here we have presented largely descriptive aspects of codon usage in Drosophila based on the newly available complete genome sequences.

Furthermore, we explored patients' preference in risk presentation formats, usage of descriptive terms, and whether sequence of presenting more or less severe side effects would affect decisions.

Its next usage was more descriptive: "She's shakin' like a leaf/Tremblin' on a tree".