Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act, process, or technique of describing.
  • noun A statement or an account describing something.
  • noun A pictorial representation.
  • noun A kind or sort.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of delineating or depicting; representation by visible lines, marks, colors, etc.
  • noun The act of representing a thing by words or signs, or the account or writing containing such representation; a statement designed to make known the appearance, nature, attributes, accidents, or incidents of anything: as, a description of a house or of a battle.
  • noun The qualities expressed in a representation; the combination of qualities which go to constitute a class or an individual, and would be mentioned in describing it; hence, a variety; sort; kind.
  • noun Synonyms Relation, Narrative, etc. (see account), delineation, portrayal, sketch.
  • noun Sort, cast, quality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • noun 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.
  • noun A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun 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.
  • noun The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • noun A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
  • noun biology A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sort or variety
  • noun the act of describing something
  • noun a statement that represents something in words

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English descripcioun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin dēscrīptiō, dēscrīptiōn-, from dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībere, to write down; see describe.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin descriptio.

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Examples

  • The description of the plague follows, but it follows only _as a description_.

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  • It is power unlimited placed in the hands of _an adverse_ description _because it is an adverse description_.

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