Description vs Extent - What's the difference?
description | extent |
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.
A range of values or locations.
The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
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(computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
As nouns the difference between description and extent
is that 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 while extent is a range of values or locations.As an adjective extent is
(obsolete) extended.description
English
(wikipedia description)Noun
(en noun)- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.
Synonyms
* (characteristics) sort, kind, type, varietyExternal links
* *See also
* synopsis * interpretationAnagrams
* ----extent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.