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description
English
Etymology
From Old French description, from Latin d?scr?pti?, noun of action of d?scr?b? (“I describe”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??sk??p??n/
Noun
description (countable and uncountable, plural descriptions)
- 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.
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.
- (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.
- (linguistics) 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.
- (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.
Synonyms
- (characteristics): sort, kind, type, variety
Derived terms
Related terms
- describe
- descriptive
Translations
See also
- prescription
- descriptivism
Further reading
- description in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- description in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
See also
- synopsis
- interpretation
Anagrams
- discerption, predictions
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?scripti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s.k?ip.sj??/
- Homophone: descriptions
Noun
description f (plural descriptions)
- description
Related terms
- décrire
- descriptif
Further reading
- “description” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
From Latin d?scripti?.
Noun
description f (oblique plural descriptions, nominative singular description, nominative plural descriptions)
- description
Related terms
- descrivre
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mould
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /mo?ld/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??ld/
- Rhymes: -??ld
Etymology 1
Via Middle English molde, moulde and Old French molde, from Latin modulus.
Noun
mould (countable and uncountable, plural moulds)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“hollow form or matrix”)
Translations
Verb
mould (third-person singular simple present moulds, present participle moulding, simple past and past participle moulded)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“to shape in a mould”)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow moldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *mugl?n?, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz (“soft substance”) (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.
Noun
mould (countable and uncountable, plural moulds)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”)
Translations
Verb
mould (third-person singular simple present moulds, present participle moulding, simple past and past participle moulded)
- (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling) Alternative spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”)
Translations
Etymology 3
From Old English molde. Cognate with Old High German molta, Old Norse mold and Gothic ???????????????????? (mulda).
Noun
mould (plural moulds)
- loose soil, esp when rich in organic matter
- (poetic) the earth
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