Account vs. Description
Accountnoun
(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
Accountnoun
(banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
Accountnoun
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
Accountnoun
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
Accountnoun
(business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
Accountnoun
A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
Accountnoun
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Accountnoun
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
Accountnoun
An authorization to use a service.
Accountnoun
(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
Accountnoun
Profit; advantage.
Accountverb
To provide explanation.
Accountverb
To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
Accountverb
To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.
Accountverb
(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
Accountverb
(intransitive) To consider that.
Accountverb
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
Accountverb
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
Accountverb
(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
Accountverb
(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
Accountverb
(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
Accountverb
To count.
Accountverb
To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).
Accountverb
(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
Accountverb
(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
Accountnoun
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
Accountnoun
A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
Accountnoun
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
Accountnoun
A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
Accountnoun
A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
Accountnoun
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
Accountnoun
Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
Accountverb
To reckon; to compute; to count.
Accountverb
To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; - with to.
Accountverb
To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
Accountverb
To recount; to relate.
Accountverb
To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
Accountverb
To render an account; to answer in judgment; - with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
Accountverb
To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
Accountnoun
a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services;
Accountnoun
the act of informing by verbal report;
Accountnoun
a record or narrative description of past events;
Accountnoun
a short account of the news;
Accountnoun
a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;
Accountnoun
a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.;
Accountnoun
an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;
Accountnoun
grounds;
Accountnoun
importance or value;
Accountnoun
the quality of taking advantage;
Accountverb
be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something;
Accountverb
keep an account of
Accountverb
to give an account or representation of in words;
Accountverb
furnish a justifying analysis or explanation;
Descriptionnoun
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.
Descriptionnoun
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Descriptionnoun
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
Descriptionnoun
(taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
Descriptionnoun
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Descriptionnoun
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.
Descriptionnoun
A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
Descriptionnoun
a statement that represents something in words
Descriptionnoun
the act of describing something
Descriptionnoun
sort or variety;
Descriptionnoun
a spoken or written account of a person, object, or event
Descriptionnoun
the action of giving a spoken or written account
Descriptionnoun
a type or class of people or things
Description
Description is the pattern of narrative development that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, or group. Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration.
