noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
apt description
▪ ‘Love at first sight’ is a very apt description of how he felt when he saw her.
detailed description/account/analysis etc
▪ a detailed study of crime in Seattle
give an account/description
▪ He gave a disturbing account of the murder.
job description
objective assessment/measurement/description etc
▪ It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accurate
▪ A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
▪ An accurate description of the problem is the first step in solving it.
▪ Do you think that this is an accurate description of how people behave when they acquire extra money?
▪ Neither the word voluntary nor the word nonprofit offers an accurate description.
▪ This seems to be an accurate description of the initial decisions about seeking entry into higher education.
▪ Both linguists wish to produce accurate descriptions of the particular language studied.
▪ Precisely because they make no claim to be accurate descriptions of the social world, they are not directly testable.
▪ These days, a more accurate description is that, despite official assurances, relations are bad and getting worse.
apt
▪ This time, the term attenuation band is an apt description of each range of frequency.
▪ In 1955, Gibson formally dubbed it an organization, though social club might have been a more apt description.
▪ We were travelling along the Lofoten Wall, an apt description for the mountains protecting this huge sea fjord.
▪ More than half of them said it tastes like melted-down bubble gum, which is an apt description of Josta.
▪ There could not be a more apt description of this mountain in miniature.
▪ I thought it an apt and correct description, with its connotations of inertia and lifelessness.
▪ The manual suggests that you move the carriage as if ironing and this is a very apt description.
brief
▪ It is very easy to respond to brief descriptions in catalogues that are not fully descriptive.
▪ This disease although now a rarity, does warrant a brief description.
▪ This completes our brief description of the orchestral brass.
▪ This is a brief description of single case research and an explanation as to how to carry out such a monitoring project.
▪ It should be clear from this brief description that these issues are inherently geographical.
▪ Rota reads the laws, finds out what reports are demanded, and writes a brief description for his book.
▪ There's also a further check box option to search the brief descriptions that accompany some groups.
▪ Each of its seven major options is arranged into subcategories with brief descriptions.
complete
▪ Existential propositions, contextually indispensable though they might be, are not logically essential for a complete description of the world.
▪ A complete job description almost defies definition.
▪ Table 11.3 is the complete description of Figure 11.2.
▪ It is not a complete description of the law.
▪ Why are monadic predicates not sufficient for a complete description of the world?
▪ Existential propositions are not really necessary - logically necessary - for a complete description of the world.
▪ A more complete and compact description of curvature in n dimensions is embodied in the Riemann tensor.
detailed
▪ Thurlow concentrates on vividly detailed description of his races, mostly in the style of the time.
▪ First of all, one of the most striking aspects of the notes is the interest Marx shows in detailed ethnographic description.
▪ The detailed descriptions of the cable working, might have been helped by diagrams.
▪ You will have your own detailed job description which describes the kind of tasks you will be doing.
▪ This table is based upon interviewees' detailed descriptions of their desired practice, not upon terms they used to describe them.
▪ A detailed description of that period would be impossible, as nothing of any substance happened.
▪ Under this system each department is divided into programme areas and a detailed programme description is provided.
▪ Moreover as a history of realism the book is concerned with larger matters than the detailed description of style.
false
▪ Three others alleged false trade descriptions.
▪ From next month, it will be a criminal offence to give false or misleading descriptions of property for sale.
▪ Three others accused the firm of false trade descriptions.
▪ In determining whether there is a false trade description the court looks at the situation as an ordinary purchaser would.
▪ Ratners admitted offering goods with a false description.
▪ Protection against being misled by false or inaccurate descriptions of goods on sale is provided by the Trade Descriptions Act, 1968.
full
▪ A full description is given on page 45.
▪ Our existing nutritional labelling gives a full description of sugar, fat and fibre content.
▪ See separate entry for full description.
▪ A full description of the meanings and uses of the status flag is given in the User's Guide.
▪ A fuller description of the process of data integration is presented by Flowerdew and Green in Chapter 4.
▪ For a full description of the individual excursions, please see the relevant resort pages.
▪ I will quote the full description.
▪ Also a full description of the supply-room clerk at Exports Consolidated and of his two accomplices.
general
▪ The information from the general descriptions condition in Figure 7.1 shows an interaction between the two types of risk.
▪ A military helicopter was dispatched and the man was rescued based on the general description provided.
▪ A general description of the technological processes 4.
▪ Further information about admissions to individual faculties as well as general course descriptions are contained in the later faculty sections.
▪ The players may well ask for a general description of the Castle.
▪ Precisely the same coding system was used for both general descriptions and descriptions of potential risks.
▪ You must be content, therefore, with such a general description as I have received from some of the eunuchs.
objective
▪ Structural features of perception, he suggests, might be accessible to objective description even though qualitative aspects are not.
▪ What if language is not a neutral system capable of objective description and analysis?
physical
▪ A physical description was easier than an emotional assessment.
▪ The very physical description of the Huns proved sufficient in and of itself to strike terror into the hearts of their enemies.
▪ Part of the answer is provided by the ballet's programme, which gives a physical description of all 13 dancers.
▪ Ground-based data as well as the latest information from the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft are used in developing both physical descriptions and theoretical understanding.
▪ A physical description of the principal processes occurring within a turbulent flow can be developed from these.
▪ There is only an abstract quantum physical description.
▪ The story does, however, abound in felicities; the physical descriptions of the planet, for example, are superb.
short
▪ At the back of the book there are twenty-two short descriptions of analytical experiments that can be carried out.
▪ This noncommercial site is basically a list of horticultural links, with a short description of each.
▪ Blurb a short description or commentary of a book or author on a book jacket.
▪ The chapters commenced with a short description of the particular subject, followed by numerous photographs of vehicles and other ancillary equipment.
▪ A few short descriptions of the kinds of activities reported to us may serve to illustrate some of their range and variety.
verbal
▪ For all kinds of on screen information - including graphics - Window Bridge can produce a verbal description.
▪ Precise verbal statements and descriptions avoid this pitfall.
▪ The decline in information content from principal component 1 to principal component 4 does not need any verbal description.
▪ The root definition is a concise verbal description of the system, which captures its essential nature.
▪ In every case the draftsman should consider whether the plan is to prevail over the verbal description or viceversa.
■ NOUN
job
▪ Your job description outlines the main duties that you will be carrying out in the course of your work.
▪ But his exposure to the tourism industry extended beyond his actual job description.
▪ Furthermore, the job description is also vitally important so that candidates then know what is required.
▪ We will have to learn to live with work situations that are not framed by job descriptions and clear reporting relationships.
▪ Most job descriptions are bland, boring, totally devoid of colour and - worse still - frequently devoid of real meaning.
▪ The traditional employee had two sources of authority: the boss and the job description.
▪ Morris nods at a job description he had approved, perhaps even encouraged, many months ago.
▪ These activities were not a part of the job description.
language
▪ PostScript-a page description language developed by Adobe Systems.
▪ But, because it's a command language and not a page description language the facilities it possesses are adequate rather than sophisticated.
▪ The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language.
▪ The page description language also allows graphics to be incorporated; rules, tones, line drawings and so on.
▪ There are currently two page description languages that are getting all the attention.
▪ Page description languages are currently a hot topic with much being written about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various offerings.
▪ The difficulty is to find a good description language in which to express the learning situation.
▪ Control formats based on escape sequences can be of indefinite length, and page description languages can be extremely powerful.
page
▪ PostScript-a page description language developed by Adobe Systems.
▪ But, because it's a command language and not a page description language the facilities it possesses are adequate rather than sophisticated.
▪ The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language.
▪ The page description language also allows graphics to be incorporated; rules, tones, line drawings and so on.
▪ There are currently two page description languages that are getting all the attention.
▪ Control formats based on escape sequences can be of indefinite length, and page description languages can be extremely powerful.
▪ PostScript is a page description language.
▪ A pixel addressable printer can obviously reproduce a bit mapped image, and page description formats have developed to allow this.
trade
▪ Three others alleged false trade descriptions.
▪ No statement is a trade description unless that statement relates to one of the items listed in section 2.
▪ Three others accused the firm of false trade descriptions.
▪ In determining whether there is a false trade description the court looks at the situation as an ordinary purchaser would.
▪ A mileometer reading on a motor vehicle is a trade description within the Act.
■ VERB
contain
▪ The receipt message contains the description of the goods and reservations by the carrier on the state of the goods.
▪ The novels of Charles Dickens contain moving descriptions of the terrible difficulties people faced during this time.
▪ The majority of this book however, is divided into sections containing detailed descriptions of the most popular and best available packages.
▪ This typical report contains many descriptions of direct sensory phenomena.
▪ The list itself contains a description, and it is generally possible to tell from that which features are protected.
▪ Russell proposed that sentences containing definite descriptions are to be semantically analyzed as general sentences.
▪ As well as containing detailed site descriptions and guides, this new addition to the series shows how individual monuments integrated with contemporary society.
defy
▪ Two other women lay upon the counter a pickle-bottle and a glass vessel of a kind which altogether defies description.
detail
▪ Divided by region of Great Britain, it includes photographs and detailed descriptions of each property.
▪ Quikbook. com, which includes detailed hotel descriptions but no photos.
▪ For those, you can include a column for a more detailed description, such as size, color and features.
▪ A detailed description of the class approach to explaining politics is in Chapter 10.
▪ It is therefore important that a detailed description of your study population be presented in the research proposal.
▪ The operation of point-factor systems depends upon the existence of detailed job descriptions.
fit
▪ Shildon was not waiting for Rain and the landlord had not seen anyone fitting his description.
▪ But once we call it that, how do we judge who fits the description?
▪ If they do suspect some one or know some one fitting the description, speak to us in confidence and we will investigate it.
▪ Hillary Clinton fits neither description and seems not to want to.
▪ They've received hundreds of calls, and now have the names of two men who fit the attacker's description.
▪ Marc Tell, homebound in Manhattan, fits that description.
▪ He certainly was in the town on 22 June, and he certainly fitted the description.
▪ Only the point guards fit that description on this club.
follow
▪ The police had been called and, following her description, a young man had been apprehended.
▪ Next, the appropriate research design followed by a description of the population to be studied is inserted.
▪ The following descriptions are of the full Moon-walking suit.
▪ They were following up on descriptions of thieves allegedly involved in the deaths of two men in the town.
give
▪ He recommended retreats in a noisy world, and gave a beautiful description of their purpose.
▪ Genthe gives it this description: This extraordinary question could not have been asked in 1906.
▪ And Martin gives a brief description of the type of terrain and gradients that blistered feet will meet.
▪ But for most students who fit the given descriptions, early identification may avoid future failure.
▪ Each teacher shall be given an individual job description specifying his or her particular responsibilities.
▪ However it does give very authoritative descriptions of fighting aircraft, training, tactics and war reports.
▪ As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about some one else.
▪ From next month, it will be a criminal offence to give false or misleading descriptions of property for sale.
include
▪ A field guide to the Quaternary deposits has been completed; it includes descriptions of important interglacial deposits found during the survey.
▪ Divided by region of Great Britain, it includes photographs and detailed descriptions of each property.
▪ Chapters 1 and 2 include descriptions of the various chromatographic, electrophoretic and spectroscopic techniques used in such systems.
▪ Quikbook. com, which includes detailed hotel descriptions but no photos.
▪ It also includes descriptions of his early days on the Survey and pen portraits of the great geologists of those times.
▪ Some nonverbal messages are so necessary to language that they must be included in descriptions of it.
▪ If a story was written skillfully enough to include vivid descriptions, Louisa pictured them in her mind.
match
▪ Any word could follow any other word, just so long as it matched the phonetic input description.
▪ Only one matched the description of some one they arrested.
▪ The parodic elements of Gay's pastorals are matched by close descriptions and a genuine sympathy for rural life.
▪ The designs on the robes also matched the descriptions of those robes in which the Saint had been enveloped in 1104.
▪ A car matching police descriptions had been found in Jedforest rugby club car park.
▪ Imagine how difficult it would be to videotape the pictures to match that description.
▪ Those that matched Darby's description had been borrowed from the newsroom and the wording of the death threat typed on them.
▪ Scrambling turned to roped up exploration as the frustrating hunt for anything remotely matching the guidebook description ensued.
provide
▪ The authors have provided descriptions indicating the degree of decision-making authority held by the manager.
▪ The book must necessarily simplify concepts and provide very limited descriptions of the techniques, their applications and limitations.
▪ Here, users already contacted are asked to provide a description of other users in their network.
▪ Einstein also recognized that the stress-energy tensor provided the appropriate tensor description for the distribution and flow of energy in space-time.
▪ He also provides a very detailed description of the medium.
▪ Chapter 3 is concerned with interface conduits and provides a good description of interfacing requirements of tandem systems.
▪ However, the demands of the experimentalists make it difficult to provide a simple description of the meaning of the calculations.
read
▪ The Profitboss doesn't squander precious time writing and reading lengthy job descriptions.
▪ He gobbled his pancakes as she started to read the description.
▪ What a relief then to read Charles Dickens's description of the miseries of feeling seasick without actually being sick.
▪ In a book by Dürer he read a description of a perspective device and made one for himself.
▪ After all, anybody who read the description of the murder weapon in the Saturday papers could have sent the knives.
▪ This should be borne in mind while reading the following descriptions so that the medium does not become confused with the aims.
write
▪ Discussion Choose one of the four. Write a description of the person you have chosen.
▪ Rota reads the laws, finds out what reports are demanded, and writes a brief description for his book.
▪ Make a vow never to write another long job description.
▪ They realize that creatively written job descriptions can lead to pay increases, as can changed job duties.
▪ Anyway, Peter also had me write down some descriptions of the other members of the management committee.
▪ Tell them to talk about what they saw and to write a description.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blow-by-blow account/description etc
answer a description
▪ A hiker spotted a man answering the description given by police.
beggar description/belief
▪ Harry, that awful, awful singing beggars belief.
▪ In Gravity's Rainbow, conspiracies proliferate to such an extent that they beggar description.
▪ The initial radio message had beggared belief.
▪ The thought of la belle dame de Bruges coming out with such stuff beggars belief.
▪ The waste, deaths, brutality and destruction of property beggar description.
▪ What she found there still beggars belief.
defy description/analysis/belief etc
▪ His changeable features, his tones, gestures and expressions seemed to defy descriptions.
▪ His swerve was something that defied analysis; just as it defied attempts to counter it.
▪ It defies belief and makes you question exactly who the law is protecting here: the sick minds or their young victims?
▪ Like the secret of Stradivari's varnish, this extra dimension defies analysis.
▪ The dam defied description; it defied belief.
▪ Two other women lay upon the counter a pickle-bottle and a glass vessel of a kind which altogether defies description.
▪ Yet other species exhibit variation patterns that defy analysis of the sophistication of present-day biology.
glowing report/account/description etc
▪ I had had nothing but glowing reports from her teacher.
▪ In return for this hospitality, all they have to do is write a glowing report of their experience.
▪ Most performers can read ten glowing reports and one bad, and only remember the nasty one.
▪ Our son's achievement level soared and at the end of the school year he received a glowing report from his teachers.
▪ These pretentious phrases and glowing descriptions also have a resonance for our time.
▪ These proved very successful and a glowing report came from the Establishment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tom gave the police a description of his car.
▪ Write a description of someone you know well.
▪ You can read a detailed description of the products on their Web site.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Affleck certainly falls into that description.
▪ Anyway, Peter also had me write down some descriptions of the other members of the management committee.
▪ However, this was not because the goods were unfit for use but rather because they included goods of a different description.
▪ However, W was unaware that the description had been applied to the goods at all.
▪ She mesmerized a neighborhood gathering with a description of her transatlantic flight.
▪ The description, which I had read in a recent newspaper account, had struck me as infinitely ironic and strange.