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Definition of discription

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1. description [ n ] a statement that represents something in words

Used in print:

(Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)

A typical `` sonogram '' of a human eye , together with a description of the anatomical parts , is shown in Fig. 5 .

(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)

A Yankee sergeant gave the following description of his sweetheart : `` My girl is none of your one-horse girls .

A Georgia soldier gave his wife the following description of the cause and consequence of diarrhoea : `` I have bin a_little sick with diorah two or three days .

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

And like Jo_March , who saw her sisters Meg and Amy involved in `` lovering '' before herself , Henrietta saw her sisters Rachel and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the attraction of suitors , Rachel by Joe_Jastrow , and Sadie by Max_Lobl , a young businessman who would write her romantic descriptions of his trips by steamboat down the Mississippi .

(Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)

Each salesman was to read a sheet containing a description of the product .

Synonyms description verbal_description Related Terms statement word_picture specification job_description

2. description [ n ] a act of describing something

Synonyms description Related Terms speech_act sketch label characterisation particularization report

3. description [ n ] sort or variety
Examples: "every description of book was there"

Synonyms description Related Terms kind

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