Recount vs Description - What's the difference?
recount | description |
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
To rehearse; to enumerate.
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.
As nouns the difference between recount and description
is that recount is retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes 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.As a verb recount
is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of or recount can be to count or reckon again.recount
English
Etymology 1
From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.Verb
(en verb)- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- to recount one's blessings
Etymology 2
Anagrams
*description
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(wikipedia description)Noun
(en noun)- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.