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A description puts something in words, like a portrait puts a person in paint. The lawnmower you came home with did not quite fit the description of the dishwasher you went shopping for.

The root for description is the Latin word descriptio, meaning "to write down." The "script" in description tells you that a good description makes what it describes come to life, like a script for a movie. Your description of that fudge almond swirl ice cream was so good I could taste it! Unfortunately, I'm allergic to nuts.

• Well, the description fits State. And Guitar been takin him places. Hidin him, I believe."
  Song of Solomon
• The books composed of page after page of ink drawings of plants with descriptions of their medical uses.
  Catching Fire
• Richardson also happened to be the botanist who first wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii and gave the plant its botanical name.
  Into the Wild
• Politics on occasion crept into the dialogue, much like an exotic plant growing amid descriptions of vetch as the ideal rotation crop.