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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.
This framework and a job description delineate the nurse's realm and boundaries.
The only description he was able to provide was that they spoke with Afro-Caribbean accents and were around 5ft 7in tall.
As she lay dying she managed to whisper a description of her attacker to the detective who found her.
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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