What's the difference between adjectival and verbal?

Adjectival


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the author's view, "traumatic" fibromyositis is no more than a verbal construct arrived at by adding an adjectival modifier to the old terms for idiopathic rheumatic disorders.
  • (2) MDL 72.974A was extremely well tolerated and no treatment-related changes in vital signs or the adjectival check-list (EWL-N) occurred.
  • (3) These projects typically have just enough decking, white paint and glass balustrades to allow good-looking young couples to be photographed inside them holding glasses of white wine, such that the adjectival nouns "luxury lifestyle" can be attached.
  • (4) Means, standard deviations, and a series of one-way analyses of variance were computed on the questionnaire's 25 adjectival pairs.
  • (5) Pain severity was assessed using a visual analogue scale and the adjectival check-list of the McGill Pain Questionnaire.
  • (6) Participants expressed concern that adjectival descriptors could be misleading.
  • (7) Standard adjectival descriptors and standard rating scales were used.
  • (8) The children classed as educable produced more correct responses than those termed trainable for declarative, question, and single-adjectival structures.
  • (9) The singer's love of animals did not inhibit his adjectival exuberance, which included sneering at the "pot-dog pudginess" of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
  • (10) It is concluded that, despite considerable overlap with subaffective disorders, the current adjectival use of this rubric does not identify a specific psychopathologic syndrome.
  • (11) The formats reviewed were bar graphs, pie charts, numeric listings, and adjectival descriptors such as high and low.
  • (12) Mitchell has let it be known he used the word "adjectivally" and was not directing it at the police.
  • (13) Personological implications of the two new scales were examined in relation to other measures and to observers' adjectival and Q-sort descriptions.
  • (14) Three aphasic patients are described whose speech contains invented word-forms which are legal combinations of meaningful parts of real words, like "fratellismo" (brother + ness) instead of "fratellanza" (brother + hood), and from combinations of meaningless and meaningful parts, like "terness + ico" (where "ico" is a real adjectival ending).
  • (15) We classify materials using a four-level adjectival rating system based on (among other factors) the Draize score.
  • (16) Worse, he has moved from beetle-browed, harrumphing man of flesh and blood, to half of an oft-uttered adjectival compound: "Leveson-compliant".
  • (17) The indexing program makes use of the MEID dictionary and some auxiliary semantic databases for identifying adjectival forms, synonyms, hypernyms and other semantic relations while searching for the longest consistent match into SNOMED.
  • (18) The Adjectival format, which provided nutrition profile information in the form of descriptive adjectives, was the most preferred.
  • (19) Both groups found imperatives easiest, and future, embedded, and double-adjectival structures most difficult.
  • (20) Yet the 31-page text oozes such high-minded, adjectival good intentions – 400 of them – that one recently ejected Labour cabinet minister snarled: "It's not a programme for government.

Verbal


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
  • (a.) Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
  • (a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
  • (a.) Abounding with words; verbose.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
  • (n.) A noun derived from a verb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (2) Heart rate, blood pressure and verbal reports of emotional experience were measured.
  • (3) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
  • (4) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
  • (5) A group of pregnant women received video and verbal feedback during three ultrasound examinations.
  • (6) Response requirements are manual rather than verbal so that, in addition to monitoring heart rate, subjects' exhaled air may be collected throughout the task in order to determine oxygen consumption.
  • (7) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
  • (8) During the initial 6-hour efficacy evaluation, analgesia was measured using verbal and visual scriptors and vital signs, and acute toxicity information was recorded.
  • (9) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
  • (10) Verbal activity was measured by counting the number of times each patient was MA during the course of the group.
  • (11) We see a lot of verbal gymnastics by these candidates at public events,” said Paul S Ryan at the Campaign Legal Center.
  • (12) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
  • (13) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
  • (14) The nonverbal task was administered to the patients with PD, patients with AD and normal control subjects studied with the verbal task.
  • (15) Neuropsychological functioning in 90 male and female alcoholics and 65 peer controls was examined using both accuracy and time measures for four basic types of neuropsychological functioning: verbal skills, learning and memory, problem-solving and abstracting, and perceptual-motor skills.
  • (16) Correlations with other measures indicated strong association with tests of spatial visualization and virtually no association with tests of verbal ability.
  • (17) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
  • (18) This paper presents a comparison between three different modes of simulation of the diagnostic process-a computer-based system, a verbal mode, and a further mode in which cards were selected from a large board.
  • (19) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
  • (20) This correlation appeared strongest for those with high verbal IQ.

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