About The Word Description
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Description
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What's The Definition Of Description?
[n] sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
[n] a statement that represents something in words [n] the act of describing something Synonyms | Synonyms for Description: verbal description Related Terms | Find terms related to Description: account | anecdote | blood | brand | breed | cast | category | character | characterization | chronicle | clan | class | color | commentary | construction | definition | delineation | denomination | depiction | designation | diagnosis | differentiation | distinction | explanation | feather | form | genre | genus | grain | history | ilk | interpretation | kidney | kin | kind | label | line | lot | make | manner | mark | meaning | memoir | mold | narration | narrative | nature | number | persuasion | phylum | picture | portrait | portraiture | portrayal | presentment | race | reading | recital | record | recountal | recounting | report | representation | shape | sort | species | stamp | statement | story | strain | stripe | style | tale | the like of | the likes of | thumbnail sketch | tribe | type | variety | version | way of seeing | yarn See Also | characterisation | characterization | delineation | depiction | detailing | form | job description | kind | label | particularisation | particularization | picture | sketch | sort | spec | specification | speech act | statement | variety | vignette | word picture | word-painting Description In Webster's Dictionary \De*scrip"tion\, n. [F. description, L. descriptio.
See {Describe}.]
1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
2. 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.
Milton has descriptions of morning. --D. Webster.
3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable;
kind; sort.
A difference . . . between them and another
description of public creditors. --A. Hamilton.
The plates were all of the meanest description.
--Macaulay.
Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail;
narrative; narration; explanation; delineation;
representation; kind; sort. See {Definition}.
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