Description

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

II. Description ·noun A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

III. Description ·noun 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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