2 definitions found
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 1.6 [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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