description in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for description in the English»French Dictionary

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

1. description:

description (of person, event, object)

description f (of de, as comme étant)

description (for police)

signalement m (of de)

to be beyond description

être indescriptible

2. description (type, kind):

description

genre m

of every description of all descriptions

de toutes sortes

items of a similar description

articles du même genre

I need a table of some description

j'ai besoin de quelque chose qui puisse faire office de table

See also job description

job description N

job description

description f de poste

job description N

job description

description f de poste

trade description N COMM

trade description

désignation f de marchandise

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highly-coloured version, description, story

enjolivé

humourless description, laugh, voice

dépourvu d'humour

factual account, description

basé sur les faits

Translations for description in the French»English Dictionary

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signalement

description

descript|if

detailed description

description

description

faire une description de qc

to give a description of sth, to describe sth

désignation

description

désignation du contenu/des lieux/de l'article

description of the contents/of the property/of the item

description in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for description in the English»French Dictionary

description [dɪˈskrɪpʃən] N

description

description f

of every description

en tout genre

to answer a description of sb/sth

correspondre à la description de qn/qc

job description N

job description

profil m du poste

audio description N

User Entry

audio description TV, CINE

audiodescription f

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colo(u)rful description

intéressant(e)

vivid example, description

frappant(e)

to answer to a description

correspondre à une description

broad description

large

Translations for description in the French»English Dictionary

Your search term in other parts of the dictionary

signalement

description

audiodescription f TV, CINE

audio description

description

description

description Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to answer a need / a description

répondre à un besoin / une description

to answer to a description

correspondre à une description

of every description

en tout genre

to answer a description of sb/sth

correspondre à la description de qn/qc

past belief/description

incroyable/indescriptible

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The most valued information on the map are the names and descriptions of settlements.

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This represents the first description of a fetal skeleton of an archaeocete.

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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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What was going on in the town, and in our souls, that's beyond description.

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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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The teams search for the caches following locations descriptions and by unraveling various riddles.

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These descriptions are simulated together with a problem-specific testbench.

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It is beyond this point that the description comes under serious doubt.

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He presented a detailed description of the boy's injuries, suggesting that they had been sustained over several hours.

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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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