| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| record or narrative description of past events |
account
,
chronicle
,
history
,
story
|
| German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859) |
Baron Alexander von Humboldt
,
Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
,
Humboldt
|
| Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons |
Bose
,
Satyendra N. Bose
,
Satyendra Nath Bose
|
| brief description accompanying an illustration |
caption
,
legend
|
| graphic or vivid verbal description |
characterisation
,
characterization
,
delineation
,
depiction
,
picture
,
word-painting
,
word picture
|
| English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844) |
Dalton
,
John Dalton
|
| branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies |
descriptive anthropology
,
ethnography
|
| description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments |
descriptive linguistics
|
| individualized description of a particular instance |
detailing
,
particularisation
,
particularization
|
| hypothetical description of a complex entity or process |
framework
,
model
,
theoretical account
|
| (linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural description |
generative grammar
|
| description of a landform |
geography
|
| original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
holotype
,
type specimen
|
| science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation |
hydrography
|
| beyond description |
indescribable
|
| United States linguist (born in Russia) noted for his description of the universals of phonology (1896-1982) |
Jakobson
,
Roman Jakobson
,
Roman Osipovich Jakobson
|
| description of the responsibilities associated with a given job |
job description
|
| brief description given for purposes of identification |
label
|
| caption or description for map or chart |
legend
|
| artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description |
naturalism
,
realism
|
