Description
[dɪ'skrɪpʃ(ə)n] or [dɪ'skrɪpʃən]
Definition
(noun.) sort or variety; 'every description of book was there'.
(noun.) a statement that represents something in words.
(noun.) the act of describing something.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Delineation, tracing.[2]. Representation, explanation, account, relation, recital, report, narration, narrative.[3]. Sort, kind, class, species.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DENOMINATION]
Typist: Marcus
Definition
n. act of describing: an account of anything in words: definition: sort class or kind.—adj. Descrip′tive containing description.—adv. Descrip′tively.—n. Descrip′tiveness.
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Examples
- Nothing, he said, can be more just than such a description of him. Plato. The Republic.
- My, it might be a description of Watson! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Give us a description, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The only person I know who exactly answers your description, and for whom as a poor deserted orphan it would be a charity to provide, is in Paris. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Sloppy had gradually expanded with his description into a stare and a vacant grin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I suppose French morality is not of that straight-laced description which is shocked at trifles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In 1845 there appeared in the _Philosophical Magazine_ a description of what was probably the first incandescent electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To read the description of him in that passport and then look at me, any man could see that I was no more like him than I am like Hercules. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is needless to say that my dress was of the sort to carry out this description. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was a description of a snow scene. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I can add nothing which will make the description more accurate, answered Ezra Jennings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Afterwards--when he _did_ reach home--the scene transcends description. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The science and description of the world on which we live are called respectively Geology and Geography. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Certain mechanics in New England, who had heard descriptions of his model, built machines on its lines, and sold them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There is nothing in Latin to compare with the early descriptions of India and Siberia that are to be found in Chinese. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oh, do go on, Newland; I do love your descriptions. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- All descriptions of food were no longer equally distasteful; she could be induced, sometimes, to indicate a preference. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Other mechanical processes consist of _separators_ of various descriptions--a prominent one of which acts on the principal of centrifugal force. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Space and time will not admit of minute descriptions, or hardly a mention, of the almost innumerable improvements of the century in steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There are about one hundred of these Scantlings, and his descriptions of them are very brief but interesting. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The overhead cable system for the transportation of materials of various descriptions in carriers, also run by a central motor, is still very extensively used. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is just because they are not descriptions of things, but expressions of will that their influence is so great. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There were almost as many quaint descriptions of the boat as there were people who saw it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Thorstein Veblen's brilliant descriptions penetrate deeply into our mental life, and Jane Addams has given new hope to many of us by her capacity for making ideals the goal of natural desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He gave me the names and descriptions of all the musical instruments, and the general terms of art in playing on each of them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But you can tell me so much more about them than I can tell you, that why should I tire you with my accounts and descriptions? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But why should they be only descriptions? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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