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DESCRIPTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sort or variety
Example:
every description of book was there
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("description" is a kind of...):
form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A statement that represents something in words
Synonyms:
description; verbal description
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("description" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "description"):
job description (description of the responsibilities associated with a given job)
spec; specification (a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work)
characterisation; characterization; delineation; depiction; picture; word-painting; word picture (a graphic or vivid verbal description)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of describing something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("description" is a kind of...):
speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "description"):
characterisation; characterization (the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features)
label (a brief description given for purposes of identification)
detailing; particularisation; particularization (an individualized description of a particular instance)
sketch; vignette (a brief literary description)
Derivation:
describe (to give an account or representation of in words)
describe (give a description of)
Context examples:
An indication or description that an event or occurrence in an individual's medical history is being managed.
(Medical History Controlled, NCI Thesaurus)
An indication or description that an adverse event occurred with an overdose.
(Adverse Event Occurred with Overdose, NCI Thesaurus)
Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An indication or description of a change in an adverse event.
(Adverse Event Modified Reported Term, NCI Thesaurus)
I read it in your eye; it is not of that description which promises the maintenance of an even tenor in life.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An indication or description that a medical history event was previously determined, characterized, or detailed.
(Medical History Pre-specified, NCI Thesaurus)
Of the centre table I could make nothing, until in your description of Gilchrist you mentioned that he was a long-distance jumper.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An indication or description that an event or occurrence in an individual's medical history is continuing.
(Medical History Ongoing, NCI Thesaurus)
An indication or description that a medical history has been taken.
(Medical History Occurrence, NCI Thesaurus)
To complete his description, his teeth were large and yellow, while the two eye-teeth, larger than their fellows, showed under his lean lips like fangs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
