Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act, process, or technique of describing.
- n. A statement or an account describing something: published a description of the journey; gave a vivid description of the game.
- n. A pictorial representation: Monet's ethereal descriptions of haystacks and water lilies.
- n. A kind or sort: cars of every size and description.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of delineating or depicting; representation by visible lines, marks, colors, etc.
- n. The act of representing a thing by words or signs, or the account or writing containing such representation; a statement designed to make known the appearance, nature, attributes, accidents, or incidents of anything: as, a description of a house or of a battle.
- n. The qualities expressed in a representation; the combination of qualities which go to constitute a class or an individual, and would be mentioned in describing it; hence, a variety; sort; kind.
- n. Synonyms Relation, Narrative, etc. (see account), delineation, portrayal, sketch.
- n. Sort, cast, quality.
Wiktionary
- 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. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- n. A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sort or variety
- n. the act of describing something
- n. a statement that represents something in words
Etymologies
- From Latin descriptio. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English descripcioun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin dēscrīptiō, dēscrīptiōn-, from dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībere, to write down; see describe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The description of the plague follows, but it follows only _as a description_.”
“It is power unlimited placed in the hands of _an adverse_ description _because it is an adverse description_.”
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)
“[description] = @description WHERE [FAQID] = @FAQID”
“#DocC documentation prototype userinput = raw_input ( "Please specify file path:") input = file (userinput, "r") source_code = input. read () description = re. compile ( '(@description ").”
“UPDATE [files] SET [description] = @description, [password] = @password, [title] = @title,”
“While it provides a date taken, only a brief sentence in description is provided.”
“Scent, the term description of influence of the atmosphere upon”
“I was asked by a customer how to change the title description for a SharePoint page (in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007).”
“As for the title description, it should be "only on planet earth ...”
“I'm not trying to knock it because a lot of times that description is code for "the one before and the one after is better".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘description’.
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vacation, suggestion, donation, condition, education, examination, federation, generation, imagination, invention, operation, pollution and 166 more...
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JURI - patent law
admissible, absolute grounds ..., abstract, acquisition of th..., action for revoca..., admissibility of ..., acceptable, allowable, appeal to a court, appellant, applicant, application and 338 more...
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Language
word, sentence, novel, book, novella, vignette, memoir, anthology, paragraph, stanza, poem, haiku and 123 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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ipt
script, conscript, description, inscription, prescription, proscription, conniption, receipt, tip toe, tip top, strip tease, Rip Torn and 27 more...
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Rhetoric: The Harlot of the Arts
Words to do with rhetoric--study of, history of, practice of, theory of
rhetoric, paralepsis, invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery, copia, consubstantiation, trope, colon, tricolon and 56 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Kayo's list 2
Level 4 vocabulary
laugh, appropriciate, mole, squeal, escape, hassle, moody, description, weave
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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praveen kumar
hi, tradition, description, tolerate, embarrassment, organisational, although, contemporary, contender, intimidation, poverty, groom and 53 more...
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Cataloger words
series, serial, entry, uniform title, authority, location, access, holdings, marc, aacr2, oclc, fixed field and 18 more...
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Writing types/references to
What I write and how I reference what I write
Tweets
Looking for tweets for description.
kayo details given of people,places or things May 15, 2009