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描绘,描写,描述,刻划;种类

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

description
     n 1: a statement that represents something in words [syn: {verbal
          description}]
     2: the act of describing something
     3: sort or variety; "every description of book was there"