How do you use Description in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like statement or kind, plus the exact meaning.
Description in a sentence
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Description meaning
- 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.
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
Using Description
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. | A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- Useful related words include: verbal description, statement, speech act, kind.
- In the example corpus, description often appears in combinations such as: description of, the description, job description.
Example sentences (20)
Christian creation science holds that the description of creation is given in the Bible, that the Bible is inerrant in this description (and elsewhere), and therefore empirical scientific evidence must correspond with that description.
In this case the description of motion is made in terms of the spatial coordinates, in which case is called the spatial description or Eulerian description, i.e. the current configuration is taken as the reference configuration.
One description for motion is made in terms of the material or referential coordinates, called material description or Lagrangian description.
Investigators said they do not have a vehicle description or a driver description.
Recently, X has added the description 'Formerly Twitter' to its App Store description, ensuring it does show up if a user searches for Twitter.
The colour description was not shared with the full team, and it was years before the first notebook description was even known to some senior officers.
As his description of Hannah Doll suggests, he is a classic Amis giant in both style and character (note the lavish, but not quite loving, description of a woman).
No further description of the remains, cause of death, hair color of the deceased, a description of the backpack or its contents has been made public.
Publisher’s Description: No description has been released yet, but we’re already obsessed with the adventurers on the cover.
However, police spokeswoman Marije Kuiper said that this description is wrong, and police do not yet have a description of the suspect.
They provided a description of the person and Officer Edwards got into his patrol car and drove around the shopping center looking for someone matching that description.
The graph would enable the organization to create an abstract description of the blood pressure data related to this event (respiratory failure), then automatically compile that description into code which obtains the prediction data.
The process begins with your scope of work (SOW) statement (description of services) or specifications (description of goods), proposal evaluation criteria, and a recommended sources list.
Action description languages Action description languages elude the frame problem rather than solving it.
A description will have two parts: * The first part describes another description language.
Among the sample entries was "Pequot, beautiful description of the war with," with a short title reference to the place in Benjamin Trumbull's A Complete History of Connecticut (1797 or 1818) where the description could be found.
As a whole, the poem is connected to Coleridge's belief in a secondary Imagination that can lead a poet into a world of imagination, and the poem is both a description of that world and a description of how the poet enters the world.
As noted above, the description of the size and landscape of Xanadu and of the Pleasure Dome was taken directly from Purchas, who took it from the description of Marco Polo, who had visited Xanadu.
Clubs also organise informal events for practice and training. citation Controls and control description sheet Control description sheet (pictorial).
Competitors receive a "control description sheet" or "clue sheet" which gives a precise description of the feature and the location of the kite, e.g., boulder, 5m, north side.
Common combinations with description
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- description of 88×
- the description 41×
- job description 14×
- that description 9×
- description the 9×
- description or 8×
- description for 8×
- description and 6×
- description is 6×
- this description 5×