Description vs. Type — What's the Difference?

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.

A category of people or things having common characteristics

A spoken or written account of a person, object, or event

A person or thing exemplifying the ideal or defining characteristics of something

A type or class of people or things

Characters or letters that are printed or shown on a screen

The act, process, or technique of describing.

A design on either side of a medal or coin.

A statement or an account describing something

An abstract category or class of linguistic item or unit, as distinct from actual occurrences in speech or writing.

A pictorial representation

Write (something) on a typewriter or computer by pressing the keys

A kind or sort

Determine the type to which (a person or their blood or tissue) belongs

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 number of people or things having in common traits or characteristics that distinguish them as a group or class:That type of car was popular in the 1970s. See Synonyms at kind.

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

A person or thing having the features of a group or class:He is the type of person that is bound to get into trouble.

A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.

An example or a model having the ideal features of a group or class; an embodiment:"He was the perfect type of a military dandy"(Joyce Cary).

(taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.

A person regarded as exemplifying a particular profession, rank, or social group:a group of executive types; a restaurant frequented by tourist types.

(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.

A figure, representation, or symbol of something to come, such as an event in the Old Testament that is believed to foreshadow another in the New Testament.

(linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.

(Biology)The type specimen, type species, or type genus, which serves as the basis for the name of a species, genus, or family.

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

A small block of metal or wood bearing a raised letter or character on the upper end that leaves a printed impression when inked and pressed on paper.

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.

Such pieces considered as a group.

A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.

Printed or typewritten characters; print:Let's see how your letter looks in type.

A statement that represents something in words

A size or style of printed or typewritten characters; a typeface:a sans-serif type.

The act of describing something

A pattern, a design, or an image impressed or stamped onto the face of a coin.

Sort or variety;

To write (something) using a typewriter.

To input (something) manually on an electronic device, especially by using a keyboard.

To assign to a category; classify or characterize:a political candidate who was typed as indecisive.

To determine the antigenic characteristics of (a blood or tissue sample).

To typecast:an actor afraid of being typed as a gangster.

To write with a typewriter or computer keyboard.

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.

An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.

A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.

(uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.

Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.

(taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.

Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.

(medicine) A blood group.

(corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.

(theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.

(computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.

(fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.

(chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.

(mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)

A symbol, emblem, or example of something.

To put text on paper using a typewriter.

To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.

To determine the blood type of.

To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

To categorize into types.

The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

Form or character impressed; style; semblance.

A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; - correlative to antitype.

That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative.

The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.

A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing.

A simple compound, used as a model or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.

To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.

To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.

A subdivision of a particular kind of thing;

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);

(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon

Printed characters;

A small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper;

All of the tokens of the same symbol;

Write by means of a keyboard with types;

Identify as belonging to a certain type;