Description

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Description \De*scrip"tion\, n. [F. description, L. descriptio.
     See {Describe}.]
     1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
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     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.
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              Milton has descriptions of morning.   --D. Webster.
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     3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable;
        kind; sort.
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              A difference . . . between them and another
              description of public creditors.      --A. Hamilton.
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              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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  description
       n 1: a statement that represents something in words [syn: {verbal
            description}]
       2: the act of describing something
       3: sort or variety; "every description of book was there"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "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