Synopsis vs. Description — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Synopsis and Description
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Synopsis
A brief summary or general survey of something
A synopsis of the insurance cover provided is set out below
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.
Synopsis
A brief outline or general view, as of a subject or written work; an abstract or a summary.
Description
A spoken or written account of a person, object, or event
People who had seen him were able to give a description
Synopsis
(authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
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Description
A type or class of people or things
It is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions
Synopsis
A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
Description
The act, process, or technique of describing.
Synopsis
(Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
Description
A statement or an account describing something
Published a description of the journey.
Gave a vivid description of the game.
Synopsis
A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.
That the reader may see in one view the exactness of the method, as well as force of the argument, I shall here draw up a short synopsis of this epistle.
Description
A pictorial representation
Monet's ethereal descriptions of haystacks and water lilies.
Synopsis
A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
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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