Hypertext Webster Gateway: "description"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Description \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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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