Definition of description

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Description (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

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Scenography :: Scenography (n.) The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye..
Justness :: "Justness (n.) The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause..
Aerography :: Aerography (n.) A description of the air or atmosphere; aerology.
Caveat :: Caveat (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention..
Thanatology :: Thanatology (n.) A description, or the doctrine, of death..
Cosmos :: Cosmos (n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony..
Haliography :: Haliography (n.) Description of the sea; the science that treats of the sea.
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..
Iconography :: Iconography (n.) The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients..
Anemography :: Anemography (n.) A description of the winds.
Toreumatography :: Toreumatography (n.) A description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal.
Otography :: Otography (n.) A description of the ear.
Oryctography :: Oryctography (n.) Description of fossils.
Hammer-beam :: Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam..
Anthorism :: Anthorism (n.) A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the adverse party.
Designate :: Designate (v. t.) To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested..
Testaceography :: Testaceography (n.) The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish..
Definition :: Definition (n.) Description; sort.
Manifest :: Manifest (a.) A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse..
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules..
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