What's the difference between explanatory and interpretative?

Explanatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, participation in the workshop program changed in a significant way their explanatory patterns in the direction of more participatory ones.
  • (2) It highlights the lack of explanatory power and the primitive nature of current metapsychology.
  • (3) However, ER emerged as the sole significantly explanatory factor when ER+PR- patients were removed from analysis.
  • (4) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
  • (5) We elicited explanatory models from patients and obtained a history of prior consultations to other types of healer.
  • (6) When a subsequent model was created that did not include decayed root surfaces or root fragments as potential explanatory variables, an additional variable relating to self-perception of mouth appearance emerged.
  • (7) These are conditional probabilities used in logit models to define the dependence of the multinomial proportions on explanatory variables and unknown parameters.
  • (8) The concept of punitive unconscious self-criticism and the concept of divergent conflict, provide sufficient explanatory power.
  • (9) The yield of explanatory x-ray findings was over three times greater among patients with indications for radiography than among those without.
  • (10) Only hypoalbuminemia had a significant independent explanatory value regarding prognosis.
  • (11) Life satisfaction is used as an explanatory outcome.
  • (12) Signal is useful variability, potentially relatable to explanatory variables, and noise is extraneous.
  • (13) Source of subjects, their marital status, the type of study, data collection methods, matching for geographical area, the number of adjustment factors used in the study analysis, the country of study and the calendar period in which the study ended were all important explanatory factors for inter-study variation, but a substantial proportion of inter-study variation remained unexplained.
  • (14) Age of onset of alcoholism is gaining prominence as an explanatory construct in the development of models of alcoholism.
  • (15) None of the other variables added significant explanatory ability to either model.
  • (16) It is claimed that the demarcation between these explanatory modes is crucial in psychiatric, and especially psychotherapeutic practice and research.
  • (17) This study also points to significant regional variation in the proportion of beneficiaries who use home health services, even with controls for many different explanatory variables.
  • (18) Self-concepts and normative expectations are implicated as key explanatory variables.
  • (19) This week I spoke to Richard Murphy , the economist and tax expert, whose new book has the self-explanatory title The Courageous State and brims with imaginative thinking.
  • (20) One important difference is that among the urban unemployed the perceived size of the network is an explanatory factor, but among the rural unemployed perceived stigmatization is more important.

Interpretative


Definition:

  • (a.) Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.
  • (a.) According to interpretation; constructive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some S-100 reactive cells previously interpreted as tumour cells were refound in a few tumours.
  • (2) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (3) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
  • (4) In 1935, Einstein challenged the prevailing interpretation of quantum theory.
  • (5) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
  • (6) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (7) This is interpreted to mean that the release of fructose from the central complex is faster than the isomerization of the E-NADH complex.
  • (8) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
  • (9) These results are interpreted in terms of the accessory binding site theory of Ariëns, and suggest the existence of different accessory binding sites on the Ascaris GABA receptor.
  • (10) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
  • (11) This is interpreted to be a consequence of the adsorption of Ca2+ on the vesicle bilayers.
  • (12) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
  • (13) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (14) The interpretation of the data is supported by studies on 15N- and 13C-enriched ferredoxin (Fd) from Anabaena 7120, where the 15N signals can be clearly correlated with the corresponding 14N signals and where the 13C signals are strongly enhanced.
  • (15) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
  • (16) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
  • (17) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (18) These findings suggest that development of standard ECG tables in which SMR and sex have been taken into account might enhance interpretation during adolescence.
  • (19) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
  • (20) The results are relevant to the interpretation of biopsies from patients with chronic demyelinating neuropathy of possible inflammatory or autoimmune origin.

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