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of any description — phrase used for emphasizing a negative statement about a type of person or thing I don’t believe a teacher of any description would say such a thing. Thesaurus: ways of emphasizing how bad something issynonym Main entry: description … Useful english dictionary
of any description — used for emphasizing a negative statement about a type of person or thing I don t believe a teacher of any description would say such a thing … English dictionary
description — Fowler (1926) discouraged the use of description as an alternative to kind and sort in expressions such as crimes of this description, but the use has become well established and often seems appropriate if sometimes a little old fashioned: • If… … Modern English usage
description — ► NOUN 1) a spoken or written account. 2) the process of describing. 3) a sort, kind, or class: people of any description … English terms dictionary
description — de|scrip|tion [ dı skrıpʃən ] noun *** count a statement about what someone or something is like: a brief description of the area give/provide/issue a description (of): Barry was unable to give police a description of his attacker. Police have… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
description */*/*/ — UK [dɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms description : singular description plural descriptions a) [countable] a statement about what someone or something is like a brief description of the area give/provide/issue a description (of): Barry was… … English dictionary
description — [[t]dɪskrɪ̱pʃ(ə)n[/t]] ♦♦♦ descriptions 1) N VAR: oft N of n A description of someone or something is an account which explains what they are or what they look like. Police have issued a description of the man who was aged between fifty and sixty … English dictionary
description — noun 1》 a spoken or written account of a person, object, or event. ↘the process of describing. 2》 a sort, kind, or class: people of any description. Phrases beyond description to a great and astonishing extent … English new terms dictionary
description — n. 1 a the act or an instance of describing; the process of being described. b a spoken or written representation (of a person, object, or event). 2 a sort, kind, or class (no food of any description). Phrases and idioms: answers (or fits) the… … Useful english dictionary
Description logic — (DL) is a family of formal knowledge representation languages. It is more expressive than propositional logic but has more efficient decision problems than first order predicate logic. DL is used in artificial intelligence for formal reasoning on … Wikipedia
