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Description

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.

A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

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Account, Act, An, Anything, Applicable, By, Certain, Class, Delineation, Describing, Enumeration, Essential, In, Is, Kind, Language, Of, Or, Portraiture, Qualities, Representation, Sketch, Sort, Species, The, Thing, To, Which

Description Quotations

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
Ralph Ellison

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
Tori Amos

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
Chuck Close

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Twyla Tharp

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.
John Le Carre

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
Freda Adler

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Lord Chesterfield

Description Translations

description in Afrikaans is beskrywing
description in Danish is beskrivelse
description in Dutch is tafereel, schildering, beschrijving
description in German is Schilderung, Beschreibung
description in Italian is descrizione
description in Norwegian is beskrivelse, signalement

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