What's the difference between characteristic and description?

Characteristic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
  • (n.) A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
  • (n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
  • (2) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
  • (3) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
  • (4) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (6) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
  • (7) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (8) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
  • (9) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (10) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (11) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (12) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (13) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
  • (14) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
  • (15) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
  • (16) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (17) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
  • (18) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (19) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (20) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.

Description


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
  • (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
  • (2) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
  • (3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
  • (4) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
  • (5) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
  • (6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
  • (7) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
  • (8) In our laboratory we have contributed to these studies with the description of: a) the regulatory activity of different neuroendocrine substances on interferon-gamma production; b) the characterization of the immune regulation exercised by the muscarinic cholinergic system; c) the in vitro activity of the indoleamines, serotonin and melatonin on the immune response, and the production of these indoleamines by lymphocytes and monocytes, thus establishing a model of paracrine regulation.
  • (9) Five psychrophilic and five mesophilic phage were selected for a description of some of their biological properties.
  • (10) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
  • (11) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
  • (12) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
  • (13) The calculation, based on analytical expression derived by Cowley, has been shown previously to give an almost quantitative description of kinematical diffraction from linear chain systems.
  • (14) This short paper includes extracts from the original translations of Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of the histology of teeth, investigates his findings and demonstrates that in addition to describing dentinal tubules, he may have identified the presence of calcospherites within that tissue.
  • (15) We report a descriptive study of 56 cases of HIV infection in a primary care center to evaluate its impact on the population on care, the practices at risk, the associated infections and the difficulties for control.
  • (16) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
  • (17) A brief description of suggested treatment and management regimens for the various forms of AIDS-related psychopathology then follows.
  • (18) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
  • (19) A descriptive case study approach was used to analyze findings.
  • (20) This is the first description of a restriction enzyme from a mycoplasma.