Description vs. Characteristics — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Description and Characteristics
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Description
Description is the pattern of narrative development that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, or group. Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration.
Characteristics
Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive
Heard my friend's characteristic laugh.
The stripes that are characteristic of the zebra.
Description
A spoken or written account of a person, object, or event
People who had seen him were able to give a description
Characteristics
A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.
Description
A type or class of people or things
It is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions
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Characteristics
(Mathematics) The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa
The characteristic of the logarithm 6.3214 is 6.
Description
The act, process, or technique of describing.
Characteristics
(Mathematics) The least number of times the multiplicative identity in a ring needs to be added to itself to reach the additive identity, or, if the additive identity is never reached, zero. The integers have a characteristic of zero; the integers modulo 12 have a characteristic of 12.
Description
A statement or an account describing something
Published a description of the journey.
Gave a vivid description of the game.
Characteristics
Plural of characteristic
Description
A pictorial representation
Monet's ethereal descriptions of haystacks and water lilies.
Description
A kind or sort
Cars of every size and description.
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.
Give a verbal description of the events
A realistic description
Description
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Description
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.
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.
Description
(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.
Description
(linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.
Description
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
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.
Milton has descriptions of morning.
Description
A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors.
The plates were all of the meanest description.
Description
A statement that represents something in words
Description
The act of describing something
Description
Sort or variety;
Every description of book was there
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