Definition of description

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Description (n.) 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.

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Description :: Description (n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Representation :: Representation (n.) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate..
Osteography :: Osteography (n.) The description of bones; osteology.
Version :: Version (n.) An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account; as, he gave another version of the affair..
Phytography :: Phytography (n.) The science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a description of plants..
Micrography :: Micrography (n.) The description of microscopic objects.
Orthology :: Orthology (n.) The right description of things.
Overcharge :: Overcharge (v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description..
Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, entered according to act of Congress..
Astrography :: Astrography (n.) The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
Agrostography :: Agrostography (n.) A description of the grasses.
Idyl :: Idyl (n.) A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like..
Diagnosis :: Diagnosis (n.) Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.
History :: History (n.) A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill..
Haliography :: Haliography (n.) Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.
Life :: Life (n.) The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life..
Pterylography :: Pterylography (n.) The study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pterylae, of birds..
Caricature :: Caricature (v. t.) A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.
Monograph :: Monograph (n.) A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range..
Definition :: Definition (n.) Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of circle; the definition of wit; an exact definition; a loose definition..
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