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What does description mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  3. A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
  4. (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
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The concise delineation of the features closely parallels a description of Sargent's drawing technique.
In a description written by Jacopo Ligozzi and dated 1577, aigrettes were put behind the headgear.
I loved, as one example, Mien's description of the midnight Mass of their first Christmas in Alice.
Police officers identified the youth from the man's description and searched the boy's room, where they found a case for an automatic air gun.
There was silence in the room when she finished her description of her trip to Africa.
It reads a GLADE user interface description and instantiates its corresponding objects.

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