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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Signalment :: Signalment (n.) The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks..
Paleontography :: Paleontography (n.) The description of fossil remains.
Agrostography :: Agrostography (n.) A description of the grasses.
Chronography :: Chronography (n.) A description or record of past time; history.
Agriology :: Agriology (n.) Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.
#NAME? :: -graphy () A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also, the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy, biography, geography..
Aggravate :: Aggravate (v. t.) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances..
Amplification :: Amplification (n.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject..
Register :: Register (n.) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title..
Semiography :: Semiography (n.) A description of the signs of disease.
Compensation :: Compensation (n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation..
Aerography :: Aerography (n.) A description of the air or atmosphere; aerology.
Orthology :: Orthology (n.) The right description of things.
Splenoid :: Splenography (n.) A description of the spleen.
Topography :: Topography (n.) The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region..
Particularism :: Particularism (n.) A minute description; a detailed statement.
Graphical :: Graphical (a.) Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a graphic writer..
Story :: Story (n.) A narration or recital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record.
Numismatography :: Numismatography (n.) A treatise on, or description of, coins and medals..
Organography :: Organography (n.) A description of the organs of animals or plants.
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