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Definition of descriptions

Description
Description De*scrip"tion, n. [F. description, L. descriptio. See Describe.] 1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. 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. Milton has descriptions of morning. --D. Webster. 3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. --A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. --Macaulay. Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail; narrative; narration; explanation; delineation; representation; kind; sort. See Definition.

Meaning of descriptions from wikipedia

- (2007), p. 38 Polking (1990), p. 106 Bal**** (2004) Ludlow, Peter (2007), Descriptions, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Bal****, Chris (2004), The Concise...
- multiple-volume works of descriptions in an attempt to catalog all known species. These catalogs typically featured extensive descriptions of each species and...
- definite descriptions "the first man on Mars" and "the Senator from Washington D.C." are improper because X applies to nothing. Improper descriptions raise...
- Service Description Language – Messaging protocol for web servicesPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Service Mapping Description – Proposed...
- and (c), 21(1) and (2), 22, 24(3), 32, 37, and 39(2). Crunchy Frog The Trade Descriptions Act 1968 Guidance Note on the Trade Descriptions Act v t e...
- synthesis that accounts for the actions produced. The ability of thick descriptions to showcase the totality of a situation to aid in the overall understanding...
- Map of British Columbia showing District Lots Mouland D.J. (1987) Land Descriptions. In: Brinker R.C., Minnick R. (eds) The Surveying Handbook. Springer...
- A Description of the methods adopted by the Duke Valentino when murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di...
- Description logics (DL) are a family of formal knowledge representation languages. Many DLs are more expressive than propositional logic but less expressive...
- Russell's theory of descriptions (commonly abbreviated as RTD). In short, Russell argued that the syntactic form of descriptions (phrases that took the...