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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  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}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

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