Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    give a verbal description of the events

    a realistic description

    Beschreibung, Deskription

    описа́ниеopisánije

    о́писópys

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

    описа́ниеopisánije

    the act of describing something

  3. (countable, uncountable)A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.

    The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.

    описа́ниеopisánije

  4. (countable, uncountable)A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.

    The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.

  6. (countable, uncountable)A descriptive linguistic survey.

Examples

168 sentences
  1. Tom wrote a very detailed description.

    Том склав дуже детальний опис.

    ruТом составил очень подробное описание.

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  2. I like that description.

    Мені подобається цей опис.

    ruМне нравится это описание.

    deIch mag die Beschreibung.

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  3. The princess was beautiful beyond description.

    ruПринцесса была неописуемо красива.

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  4. That's part of the job description.

    deDas ist Teil der Stellenbeschreibung.

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  5. That's not in my job description.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
account in words:
Русский
By meaning 1
account in words:
Deutsch
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account in words:

Origin

From Middle English descripcioun, from Old French description and its etymon, Latin dēscrī

From Middle English descripcioun, from Old French description and its etymon, Latin dēscrīptiō, noun of action of dēscrībō (“to describe”). Equivalent to describe + -tion.

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