What's the difference between description and instruction?

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.

Instruction


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
  • (n.) That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted
  • (n.) Precept; information; teachings.
  • (n.) Direction; order; command.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
  • (2) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (3) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
  • (4) In Experiment II, identification training, consisting of instructions, praise, feedback, and practice was introduced after baseline.
  • (5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (6) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
  • (7) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
  • (8) We conclude that the use of the multi-point calibration procedure presented in this article (based on calibration according to the instructions of the manufacturer and NCCLS EP-9P) greatly improves the intra-laboratory comparability and therefore should be part of multi-centre evaluations.
  • (9) The students were instructed to give up the discussion if they were convinced that the partner's position was a better solution.
  • (10) Patients should be carefully instructed in the optimal use of metered-dose inhalers, and some patients may benefit from use of tube-spacers.
  • (11) An investigation carried out over a period of two years demonstrated how these skills may be acquired using single sensory and bisensory modes of instruction.
  • (12) While the high sophistication subjects rated the interpretation as accurate across validity conditions, the low sophistication subjects rated the interpretation according to the validity instructions they received.
  • (13) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  • (14) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
  • (15) Five particular precedents stand out as instructive for informing contemporary policy responses in Europe and globally.
  • (16) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
  • (17) Results indicate that special instruction was responsible for improved understanding of the underlying disease and also improved compliance with physicians' prescriptions.
  • (18) To help overcome this problem, a stereoscopic slide-based auto-instructional program has been developed as a substitute for dissection.
  • (19) The management of painful, upper-limb disorders by 34 general practitioners (GPs) was examined 3 months before and 3 months after personal instruction of GPs by a consultant rheumatologist.
  • (20) 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.