different between usage vs descriptivist
usage
English
Alternative forms
- usuage (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English usage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ju?s?d??/, /?ju?z?d??/
Noun
usage (countable and uncountable, plural usages)
- Habit, practice.
- A custom or established practice. [from 14th c.]
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 170:
- [S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here.
- 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 170:
- (uncountable) Custom, tradition. [from 14th c.]
- Behaviour or a specific act typical of a person or people; habit. [from 14th c.]
- 1846, Charles Dickens, Dombey & Son:
- Mrs. Wickam, agreeably to the usage of some ladies in her condition, pursued […] the subject, without any compunction.
- 1846, Charles Dickens, Dombey & Son:
- A custom or established practice. [from 14th c.]
- Utilization.
- The act of using something; use, employment. [from 14th c.]
- The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region. [from 14th c.]
- (now archaic) Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
- Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]
- Satisfy a child by a constant course of your care and kindness, that you perfectly love him, and he may by degrees be accustom'd to bear very painful and rough usage from you, without flinching or complaining
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
Derived terms
Translations
References
- “usage” in R.R.K. Hartmann and Gregory James, Dictionary of Lexicography, Routledge, 1998.
- Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.
Anagrams
- Gause, agues, gause, suage
French
Etymology
From Latin ?sus + -age. Compare Medieval Latin usagium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.za?/
Noun
usage m (plural usages)
- usage, use
- (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are actually used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis (as opposed to correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority).
Derived terms
- d'usage
- en usage
- faire usage
- hors d'usage
Related terms
- usager
See also
- descriptif, normatif
Further reading
- “usage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- auges, sauge, suage
Middle French
Noun
usage m (plural usages)
- habit; custom
Old French
Noun
usage m (oblique plural usages, nominative singular usages, nominative plural usage)
- usage; use
- habit; custom
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descriptivist
English
Etymology
descriptive +? -ist
Adjective
descriptivist (comparative more descriptivist, superlative most descriptivist)
- Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
Synonyms
- descriptionist
- descriptionistic
- descriptivistic
Antonyms
- prescriptionist
- prescriptionistic
- prescriptivist
- prescriptivistic
Noun
descriptivist (plural descriptivists)
- Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.
Synonyms
- descriptionist
Antonyms
- prescriptionist
- prescriptivist
Derived terms
- descriptivistic
Romanian
Etymology
From French descriptiviste
Noun
descriptivist m (plural descriptivi?ti)
- descriptivist
Declension
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