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RELATED WORDS : job description verbal description

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun description has 3 senses

• description(n = noun.communication) verbal description - a statement that represents something in words; Array
is a kind of statement
has particulars: job description, spec, specification, characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture

• description(n = noun.communication) Array - the act of describing something; Array
is a kind of speech act
has particulars: characterisation, characterization, label, detailing, particularisation, particularization, sketch, vignette
Derived forms verb describe₂, verb describe₁

• description(n = noun.cognition) Array - sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
is a kind of form, kind, sort, variety

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THESAURUS

description

account, anecdote, blood, brand, breed, cast, category, character, characterization, chronicle, clan, class, color, commentary, construction, definition, delineation, denomination, depiction, designation, diagnosis, differentiation, distinction, explanation, feather, form, genre, genus, grain, history, ilk, interpretation, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make, manner, mark, meaning, memoir, mold, narration, narrative, nature, number, persuasion, phylum, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, race, reading, recital, record, recountal, recounting, report, representation, shape, sort, species, stamp, statement, story, strain, stripe, style, tale, the like of, the likes of, thumbnail sketch, tribe, type, variety, version, way of seeing, yarn

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Nomenclature

N nomenclature, naming, nuncupation, nomination, baptism, orismology, onomatopoeia, antonomasia, name, appelation, appelative, designation, title, heading, rubric, caption, denomination, by-name, epithet, style, proper name, praenomen, agnomen, cognomen, patronymic, surname, cognomination, eponym, compellation, description, antonym, empty title, empty name, handle to one's name, namesake, term, expression, noun, byword, convertible terms, technical term, cant, named, hight, ycleped, known as, what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly, nuncupatory, nuncupative, cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological, beggar'd all description.

Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.

Class

N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.

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