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. In practice it would be difficult to write literature that drew on just one of the four basic modes.
Account (noun)
A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. from c. 1300
Account (noun)
A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal. from 1833
“to keep one’s account at the bank.”
Account (noun)
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
“No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.”
Account (noun)
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person’s sake.
“Don’t trouble yourself on my account.”
“on no account; on every account; on all accounts”
Account (noun)
A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
Account (noun)
A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description. from c. 1610
“An account of a battle.”
Account (noun)
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Account (noun)
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
Account (noun)
An authorization to use a service.
“I’ve opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.”
Account (noun)
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
Account (noun)
Profit; advantage.
Account (verb)
To provide explanation.
Account (verb)
To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. 14th-17th c.
Account (verb)
To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. from 14th c.
Account (verb)
To estimate, consider (something to be as described). from 14th c.
Account (verb)
To consider that. from 14th c.
Account (verb)
To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. from 15th c.
“An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.”
Account (verb)
To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one’s actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. from 16th c.
“We must account for the use of our opportunities.”
Account (verb)
To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. from 16th c.
“Idleness accounts for poverty.”
Account (verb)
To establish the location for someone. from 19th c.
“After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.”
Account (verb)
To count.
Account (verb)
To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). from 19th c.
Account (verb)
To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). from 14th c.
Account (verb)
To count (up), enumerate. 14th-17th c.
Description (noun)
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.
Description (noun)
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Description (noun)
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
“The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.”
Description (noun)
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 (noun)
a spoken or written account of a person, object, or event
“people who had seen him were able to give a description”
Description (noun)
the action of giving a spoken or written account
“the emphasis was placed on explanation rather than description”
Description (noun)
a type or class of people or things
“it is laughably easy to buy drugs of all descriptions”