Simplify vs Description - What's the difference?
simplify | description |
To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
To become simpler.
* 2006 , Karen Oslund, “Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”, in David L. Hoyt and Karen Oslund (editors), The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context , Lexington Books, ISBN 978-0-7391-0955-7, page 126:
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.
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
(biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
As a verb simplify
is to make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.As a noun description is
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.simplify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.
Derived terms
* oversimplify * simplification * simplifier English ergative verbsdescription
English
(wikipedia description)Noun
(en noun)- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.