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noun

Description n.

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

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."

A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. "A difference... between them and another description of public creditors." "The plates were all of the meanest description."

Synonyms: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail; narrative; narration; explanation; delineation; representation; kind; sort. See Definition.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Description" Quotes from Famous Books

... in time to tell me whether these are going to look right. You know we've never seen any, and have only your description to go by." ...

— Elsie's Motherhood • Martha Finley

... of the dolphin when just out of the water beggars description. Very few anglers in the world have ever had this experience. Not many anglers, perhaps, care for the beauty of a fish. But I do. And for the sake of those who feel the same way I wish I could paint him. But that seems impossible. For even while I gazed the fish changed color. He should ...

— Tales of Fishes • Zane Grey

... all the surface more quickly and surely than a single variety, and the pasturage is better. The character of the soil determines the character of the mixture in large measure. When land can be well fitted, a heavy seeding is best, but the cost is nearly prohibitive for thin, rough lands. A brief description of the leading pasture grasses east of the semi-arid region, and north of the ...

— Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement • Alva Agee

... advertisements cut out of newspapers, a lock of hair tied round with a dirty bit of ribbon, a circular letter about a loan society, and some copies of verses not likely to suit any company that was not of an extremely free-and-easy description. On the leaves of the pocketbook, people's addresses scrawled in pencil, and bets jotted down in red ink. On one leaf, ...

— After Dark • Wilkie Collins

... in the Introductory, the purpose of this book is to show how to do the things, and not to draw a picture in order to write a description of it. Merely in the line of suggestion, we give in this chapter views and brief descriptions of useful household articles, all of which may be made by the boy who has ...

— Carpentry for Boys • J. S. Zerbe

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