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What does description mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  3. A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
  4. (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
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Police officers identified the youth from the man's description and searched the boy's room, where they found a case for an automatic air gun.
I have always objected when the term 'English' is used as a coverall description for those things which are happening within the UK at large.
As she lay dying she managed to whisper a description of her attacker to the detective who found her.
This framework and a job description delineate the nurse's realm and boundaries.
Your blood type is a description of what kinds of agglutinogens are present on the surfaces of your own red blood cells.
It reads a GLADE user interface description and instantiates its corresponding objects.

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