English-Dutch translations for description

• beschrijving
  Het is slechts een beschrijving van de problemen. It is just a description of the problems.
  De beschrijving is heel beknopt maar heel hypocriet. The description is very succinct, but very hypocritical.
  De beschrijving die de Commissie van de economie geeft, is onrealistisch positief. The Commission's description of the economy is overoptimistic.
• descriptie
• tekening

Definition of description

• 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
• A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized
• A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science
• The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage

Examples

• The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.
• The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.

Related words

• metadescription
• meta-description
• description word
• description of a journey
• job description
• page description language
• hardware description language
• audio description
• definite description