description in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for description in the English»Spanish Dictionary

description [Am dəˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n, Brit dɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n] N

1. description C (of person, scene, event):

description

descripción f

I was able to identify the car from his description

pude identificar el coche gracias a su descripción

I know nobody answering that description

no conozco a nadie que responda a esa descripción

2. description U (technique):

description

descripción f

powers of description

talento m para describir

her beauty was beyond description

su belleza era indescriptible

the sensation defies description

es una sensación difícil de describir

3. description C (sort):

of every description of all descriptions

de todo tipo

of every description of all descriptions

de toda clase

we don't have anything of that description

no tenemos nada de ese tipo or nada con esas características

job description N

job description

descripción f del puesto

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one-dimensional characters/description

superficial

one-dimensional characters/description

sin fondo

one-dimensional characters/description

sin profundidad

bloodthirsty story/description

sangriento

detailed account/description

detallado

detailed account/description

minucioso

detailed account/description

pormenorizado

summary account/description

breve

summary account/description

corto

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catalogación (calificación)

description

señas personales

physical description

cuadro de costumbres

description of local customs

descripción

description

hizo una fiel descripción de los hechos

she gave an accurate description o account of events

description in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for description in the English»Spanish Dictionary

description [dɪˈskrɪpʃən] N

1. description (account):

description

descripción f

to answer a description of sb/sth

corresponder a una descripción de alguien/algo

2. description (sort):

description

clase f

of every description

de todo tipo

job description N

job description

descripción f del puesto

audio description N

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audio description TV, CINE

audiodescripción f

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it defies description

es indescriptible

warts and all inf description, portrait

con sus virtudes y defectos

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audiodescripción f TV, CINE

audio description

calificativo

description

reseña

description

descripción

description

calificación (denominación)

description

description Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

it defies description

es indescriptible

warts and all inf description, portrait

con sus virtudes y defectos

to answer a description of sb/sth

corresponder a una descripción de alguien/algo

of every description

de todo tipo

to beggar description

resultar indescriptible

past description

indescriptible

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

A formal description was not published for this dragon until 1985, despite being known to herpetologists.

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The book contains short descriptions of supposed, rumoured or lost books, pictures, and objects.

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I told him stories and wrote pages and pages of reminiscences, descriptions and images, and he put them into tighter lyrical form.

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But its long, strange, full of lush description that gives the whole thing a haunting and elegiac quality.

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The set of all these vectors is a rich description of the shape localized at that point but is far too detailed.

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The subject is not a description or a realistic work, but the music and the sound.

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This description is really no different from general method above, however it is more succinct.

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Two different full descriptions of the physical system with related systems of equations can be found hereafter and hereafter: they give the same results.

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He also argued the description of sexuality was universal in literature.

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Many descriptions are very mundane, and an equal number are fanciful or strange.

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