different between description vs view

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)

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.

   The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.

4. (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.

5. (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.
6. (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)

1. 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)

1. description

Related terms

• descrivre

English

Etymology

From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vju?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

view (plural views)

1. (physical) Visual perception.
   1. The act of seeing or looking at something.
      • , Book II, Chapter XXI

        Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
   2. The range of vision.

      Synonyms: sight, eyeshot

      • The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.

   3. Something to look at, such as scenery.

      Synonym: vista

      • 1799, Thomas Campbell, s:The Pleasures of Hope

        'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

   4. (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user.

      Synonyms: (of a webpage) pageview, (of a video) play

   5. (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
      • c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece

        [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.

2. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.

3. An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
   1. A mental image.
   2. A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.

      • to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty
   3. A point of view.

   4. An intention or prospect.

      • No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he does

4. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
5. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
6. A wake. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• (part of computer program): model, controller

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)

1. (transitive) To look at.

   The video was viewed by millions of people.
2. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

   I view it as a serious breach of trust.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deem

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• see
• look
• voyeur

Anagrams

• wive

Middle English

Noun

view

1. Alternative form of vewe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English view.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viw/
• Homophone: viu

Noun

view f (plural views)

1. (databases) view (logical table formed from data from physical tables)

   Synonym: visão