Synonym: verbal description. Similar words: prescription, script, describe, discrimination, option, adoption, perception, reception. Meaning: [dɪ'skrɪpʃn] n. 1. a statement that represents something in words 2. the act of describing something 3. sort or variety.
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241. This description owes its quaint sound partly to its antiquity, and partly to ambiguity.
242. Also, falsely describing goods can amount to a criminal offence under the Trades Description Act 1968.
243. But, because it's a command language and not a page description language the facilities it possesses are adequate rather than sophisticated.
244. The manual suggests that you move the carriage as if ironing and this is a very apt description.
245. While the description of the problem is couched in literary terms, hypotheses ought to be couched in operational terms.
246. A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers - the variety is so large as to make description impossible.
247. You can read a detailed description of the products on their Web site.
248. A hiker spotted a man answering the description given by police.
249. The Tomlinson report's description of the inadequacy of primary and community health services in London commands widespread agreement.
250. A better description of its use is that it automatically loose feeds the swim with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency.
251. Superb apple pie with sultanas and cloves, interspersed with crusty bread sandwiches of every description.
252. However, this was not because the goods were unfit for use but rather because they included goods of a different description.
253. The police are asking residents to keep an eye out for a person bearing this description.
254. Although first written in 1951, this description of the content and impacts of constitutions is arguably still the best.
255. Democratic columnist Mark Shields offers the same description but with crepe bunting.
256. Two years of basic research led to a first description of Mamprusi court ritual and the system of succession.
257. The photograph should be accompanied by a brief description of the window box and how it improves its surroundings.
258. Description and decision are delayed until an extended visual search is completed.
259. Discussion of this would lead us into great complexity and it is appropriate to give a largely phenomenological description.
260. Existential propositions, contextually indispensable though they might be, are not logically essential for a complete description of the world.
261. So a Creature object will contain the species field in addition to the name and description fields inherited from the Thing class.
262. We shall probably arrange an evening trip of some description, possibly along the Shrewsbury-Chester line, with its magnificent viaducts.
263. And Martin gives a brief description of the type of terrain and gradients that blistered feet will meet.
264. Why are monadic predicates not sufficient for a complete description of the world?
265. To do this, study the application form carefully as well as the job description.
266. Much effort went into the establishment of regional chronological systems, and the description of the development of culture in each area.
267. These days, a more accurate description is that, despite official assurances, relations are bad and getting worse.
268. There was a description of her fine crinoline gown and of the Grenfell emeralds she had worn.
269. This prediction is derived from a free-form textual description of the problem.
270. In Gravity's Rainbow,[sentencedict.com] conspiracies proliferate to such an extent that they beggar description.
More similar words: prescription, script, describe, discrimination, option, adoption, perception, reception, exception, assumption, corruption, conception, consumption, destruction, descend, subscriber, bumptious, notion, motion, nation, action, question, fiction, edition, portion, mention, section, auction, function, fraction.