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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Description \De*scrip"tion\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
description
noun
1: a statement that represents something in words [syn: {verbal description}]
2: the act of describing something
3: sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "description": account, anecdote, blood, brand, breed, cast, category, character, characterization, chronicle, clan, class, color, commentary, construction, definition, delineation, denomination, depiction, designation, diagnosis, differentiation, distinction, explanation, feather, form, genre, genus, grain, history, ilk, interpretation, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make, manner, mark, meaning, memoir, mold, narration, narrative, nature, number, persuasion, phylum, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, race, reading, recital, record, recountal, recounting, report, representation, shape, sort, species, stamp, statement, story, strain, stripe, style, tale, the like of, the likes of, thumbnail sketch, tribe, type, variety, version, way of seeing, yarn
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