Description
Description noun - A vivid representation in words of someone or something.
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Essay and description are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Essay" instead a noun "Description".
Essay
Essay noun - A short piece of writing typically expressing a point of view.
Description and essay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Description" instead a noun "Essay".
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- The Honorverse Companion House Of Steel includes an essay co-written by Weber and US Naval Analyst Christopher Weuve on building a military which goes into great detail about everything mentioned in this trope's description.
Source: Strategy Versus Tactics -
Pædo Hunt: Description turned into an essay about paedophilia, which drew unwanted real-life examples and threatened to turn it into the same anti-persecution tract that forced us to change its name from All Pedophiles Are Child Molesters.
Source: Administrivia / Locked Pages - The closing narration is presumably the final version of the essay, with some differences and each of the five students on detention reading their description (a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal).
Source: Book Ends / Film
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