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Coverage vs Description - What's the difference?

coverage | description | Synonyms |

Coverage is a synonym of description.


As nouns the difference between coverage and description

is that coverage is an amount by which something or someone is covered while description is a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

coverage

English

Noun

(wikipedia coverage)
  • An amount by which something or someone is covered.
  • Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
    Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.
    The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?
    There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.
  • The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
  • (lb) The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
  • description

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
  • The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  • A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
  • (biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
  • The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.

    Synonyms

    * (characteristics) sort, kind, type, variety

    See also

    * synopsis * interpretation

    Anagrams

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