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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for description:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
description
    n 1: a statement that represents something in words [syn:
         description, verbal description]
    2: the act of describing something
    3: sort or variety; "every description of book was there"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Description \De*scrip"tion\, n. [F. description, L. descriptio.
   See Describe.]
   1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
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   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.
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            Milton has descriptions of morning.   --D. Webster.
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   3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable;
      kind; sort.
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            A difference . . . between them and another
            description of public creditors.      --A. Hamilton.
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            The plates were all of the meanest description.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail;
        narrative; narration; explanation; delineation;
        representation; kind; sort. See Definition.
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