Description
noun
A statement or account that tells you what something is like or what someone is like.
The job advertisement gave a detailed description of the role responsibilities.
Often appears as...
- detailed description
- accurate description
noun
The process of using words to create a picture of something.
Her description of the landscape brought it to life.
Often appears as...
- vivid description
- detailed description
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Literary
noun
A type or category of something or someone.
There was nothing of any description to be seen.
Often appears as...
- items of any description
- thieves of this description
noun
The action of defining something.
Through the description of the object, we understood what it was.
Often appears as...
- theoretical description
- scientific description
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Academic
noun
A statement or account that tells you what something is like or what someone is like.
The job advertisement gave a detailed description of the role responsibilities.
Often appears as...
- detailed description
- accurate description
noun
The process of using words to create a picture of something.
Her description of the landscape brought it to life.
Often appears as...
- vivid description
- detailed description
Usage tips
Literary
noun
A type or category of something or someone.
There was nothing of any description to be seen.
Often appears as...
- items of any description
- thieves of this description
noun
The action of defining something.
Through the description of the object, we understood what it was.
Often appears as...
- theoretical description
- scientific description
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Detail Importance
Adding details helps the listener understand the subject more thoroughly.
His description included the color, shape, and size, clarifying what he meant.
Pro Tip 2/3Objective or Subjective
Descriptions can be factual or influenced by personal feelings and opinions.
The scientist's description was objective, while the artist's was full of emotion.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Vagueness
Vague descriptions can lead to misunderstandings; be as specific as possible.
Instead of 'big dog', her description said 'a large, brown Great Dane'.
Pro Tip 1/3Detail Importance
Adding details helps the listener understand the subject more thoroughly.
His description included the color, shape, and size, clarifying what he meant.
Pro Tip 2/3Objective or Subjective
Descriptions can be factual or influenced by personal feelings and opinions.
The scientist's description was objective, while the artist's was full of emotion.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Vagueness
Vague descriptions can lead to misunderstandings; be as specific as possible.
Instead of 'big dog', her description said 'a large, brown Great Dane'.
Pro Tip 1/3Detail Importance
Adding details helps the listener understand the subject more thoroughly.
His description included the color, shape, and size, clarifying what he meant.
Pro Tip 2/3Objective or Subjective
Descriptions can be factual or influenced by personal feelings and opinions.
The scientist's description was objective, while the artist's was full of emotion.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Vagueness
Vague descriptions can lead to misunderstandings; be as specific as possible.
Instead of 'big dog', her description said 'a large, brown Great Dane'.
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How to take a picture of...
And so, my role in helping to take the first image of a black hole is to design algorithms that find the most reasonable image that also fits the telescope measurements. Just as a forensic sketch artist uses limited descriptions to piece together a picture using their knowledge of face structure, the imaging algorithms I develop use our limited telescope data
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Expanding your mind with...
they understood the power of how you package and ideas just as important as the idea itself and I thought the term was really well it served those really good described description of the kind of videos that I was doing which are kind of these I called him shots philosophical espresso you know they crack a lot of ideas into
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The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
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The secret to desire in...
I look at this person and I momentarily get a shift in perception, and I stay open to the mysteries that are living right next to me. And then, more importantly, in this description about the other or myself -- it's the same -- what is most interesting is that there is no neediness in desire.
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How does the Rorschach...
the detail-oriented, the big-picture perceivers, and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions. Responses were as varied as the inkblots,
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The language of lying —...
"I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to, or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby."
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Everything you need to...
like repetition of memorized passages or set pieces. These included descriptions of scenery and lists of characters, and helped the rhapsode keep their place in the narrative, just as the chorus or bridge of a song helps us to remember the next verses.
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How to write descriptivel...
Chances are the second description wasn't as vivid to you as the first. The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. Fiction engages the senses, helps us create vivid mental simulacra
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Diving 1000m Below The...
window just constantly for about half an hour of every color shape description before you know it you're on the deep sea floor a big part of divas work is to understand the threats that the creatures of the deep are facing given
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Feathers in Flight: The...
is one of the most important things is to have the genetic samples. So I'm going to pluck the tail feather first. Sorry, guy. The general sort of description of where the willow flycatcher
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How to take a picture of...
And so, my role in helping to take the first image of a black hole is to design algorithms that find the most reasonable image that also fits the telescope measurements. Just as a forensic sketch artist uses limited descriptions to piece together a picture using their knowledge of face structure, the imaging algorithms I develop use our limited telescope data
Video examples
Expanding your mind with...
they understood the power of how you package and ideas just as important as the idea itself and I thought the term was really well it served those really good described description of the kind of videos that I was doing which are kind of these I called him shots philosophical espresso you know they crack a lot of ideas into
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The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
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The secret to desire in...
I look at this person and I momentarily get a shift in perception, and I stay open to the mysteries that are living right next to me. And then, more importantly, in this description about the other or myself -- it's the same -- what is most interesting is that there is no neediness in desire.
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How does the Rorschach...
the detail-oriented, the big-picture perceivers, and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions. Responses were as varied as the inkblots,
Video examples
The language of lying —...
"I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to, or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby."
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Everything you need to...
like repetition of memorized passages or set pieces. These included descriptions of scenery and lists of characters, and helped the rhapsode keep their place in the narrative, just as the chorus or bridge of a song helps us to remember the next verses.
Video examples
How to write descriptivel...
Chances are the second description wasn't as vivid to you as the first. The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. Fiction engages the senses, helps us create vivid mental simulacra
Video examples
Diving 1000m Below The...
window just constantly for about half an hour of every color shape description before you know it you're on the deep sea floor a big part of divas work is to understand the threats that the creatures of the deep are facing given
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Feathers in Flight: The...
is one of the most important things is to have the genetic samples. So I'm going to pluck the tail feather first. Sorry, guy. The general sort of description of where the willow flycatcher
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Riz Ahmed
British Musician
You can read a character that feels amazing, but if the world around it and all the writing around it - even the way the stage descriptions are written - don't feel just right, then you know there's no point in doing the project. No character is ever bigger than the whole film.
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese Designer
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
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Sabaa Tahir
Pakistani Writer
In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.
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Gilda Radner
American Comedian
Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.
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John Locke
English Philosopher
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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Ruben Blades
Panamanian Musician
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
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Halima Aden
American Model
There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.
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Sophia Amoruso
American Businesswoman
A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.
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Julia Restoin Roitfeld
French Model
My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.
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Dylan Sprouse
American Actor
Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.
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Riz Ahmed
British Musician
You can read a character that feels amazing, but if the world around it and all the writing around it - even the way the stage descriptions are written - don't feel just right, then you know there's no point in doing the project. No character is ever bigger than the whole film.
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Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese Designer
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
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Sabaa Tahir
Pakistani Writer
In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.
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Gilda Radner
American Comedian
Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.
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John Locke
English Philosopher
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
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Ruben Blades
Panamanian Musician
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
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Halima Aden
American Model
There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.
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Sophia Amoruso
American Businesswoman
A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.
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Julia Restoin Roitfeld
French Model
My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.
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Dylan Sprouse
American Actor
Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.
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