The museum's catalog provided a detailed description of the ancient pottery's glaze and firing technique.
博物馆的目录详细描述了古代陶器的釉料和烧制技术。
The essay opens with a vivid description of a single monarch butterfly navigating a highway overpass, then zooms out to discuss the species' entire migratory route from Canada to Mexico, and finally returns to that same overpass to describe conservation efforts underway there.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
The opening paragraph of the short story lingers on a detailed description of a cluttered, dusty attic, a setting that reappears, unchanged, in the story's final paragraph after the protagonist has undergone a significant personal transformation.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
A restaurant review begins with a detailed, almost reverent description of a single dish—a slow-braised short rib—before broadening to discuss the restaurant's overall menu, service, and atmosphere.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “description”?
A — A spoken or written account of something. “description” means a spoken or written account of something.
Which word means “a spoken or written account of something”?
B — description. “description” means a spoken or written account of something.
description — a spoken or written account of something. In Chinese: 描述，说明.
description is pronounced /dɪˈskrɪpʃən/.
The museum's catalog provided a detailed description of the ancient pottery's glaze and firing technique. (博物馆的目录详细描述了古代陶器的釉料和烧制技术。)
account, depiction, portrayal — all close in meaning to description (a spoken or written account of something).
misrepresentation — each the opposite of description (a spoken or written account of something).
Yes. description is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.