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• description — de·scrip·tion n: a representation in words of the nature and characteristics of a thing: as a: a specification of the boundaries of a piece of land (as for a deed) b: an explanation of an invention in a patent application or printed publication… …   Law dictionary

• description — n. 1) to give, provide a description 2) to answer to a description (he answers to the description of the escaped convict) 3) to beggar, defy description 4) an accurate, correct, exact; blow by blow; clear; detailed, thorough; firsthand; glowing;… …   Combinatory dictionary

• correct — I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Latin correctus, past participle of corrigere, from com + regere to lead straight more at right Date: 14th century 1. a. to make or set right ; amend < correct an error > b …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• correct —    1. in line with received opinion or enforced dogma    As in politically correct and not referring to a general adherence to high moral standards.    What is correct depends on who is writing the rule book, including the Nazis or the Russian… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• Description of the Town of Quebeck, A —    Essay (78,000 words); written September 1930–January 14, 1931. First published in HPL’s To Quebec and the Stars(1976), ed. L.Sprague de Camp.    HPL’s single longest literary work an exhaustive history of Quebec and a detailed travelogue of… …   An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia

• Politiquement correct — Le politiquement correct (anglicisme de politically correct, PC) désigne, presque toujours pour la dénoncer, une attitude véhiculée par les politiques et les médias, qui consiste à adoucir excessivement les formulations qui pourraient heurter un… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Politically Correct Bedtime Stories — Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a book by James Finn Garner, published in 1994, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and sanitization of children s literature, with an… …   Wikipedia

• Linguistic description — Linguistics …   Wikipedia

• Multiple description coding — (MDC) is a coding technique that fragments a single media stream into n substreams (n ≥ 2) referred to as descriptions. The packets of each description are routed over multiple, (partially) disjoint paths. In order to decode the media… …   Wikipedia

• politically correct — Meaning Description of the practice of conforming to liberal opinion which avoids language or actions which might cause offence to social minorities. Origin Gradually entered the language beginning with the feminist and other left wing movements… …   Meaning and origin of phrases

• Geometric Description Language — In computer aided design, Geometric Description Language (GDL) is the programming language of ArchiCAD library parts. GSM is the file format of these CAD objects. Area of usageThese objects are similar to blocks in AutoCAD, but unlike blocks,… …   Wikipedia