published description

collocation in English

meaningsofpublishanddescription

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publish
verb[T]
uk
/ˈpʌb.lɪʃ/us
/ˈpʌb.lɪʃ/
to make information available to people, especially in a book, magazine, or newspaper, or to produce and sell a book, magazine, ...
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description
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us
/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
something that tells you what something or someone ...
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(Definition ofpublishanddescriptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpublished description

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No doubt some of these articles may be used in substitution for other articles, but this does not affect the substantial accuracy of thepublisheddescription.
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This work also includes the firstpublisheddescriptionof the pulmonary circulation.
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According to the earliest knownpublisheddescriptionof him (1797), he was one of the handsomest men you could ever meet....
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This appears to be the firstpublisheddescriptionof programming.
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The firstpublisheddescriptionof a person with a 22q11.2 distal deletion was in 1999.
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Smith's firstpublisheddescriptionof the plates said the plates had the appearance of gold.
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Published descriptions of services usually do not focus specifically on very old people.
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Data is a thorny problem for the textbook writer, especially where the author has to rely on published descriptions, which are never as complete as might be wished.
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His experiments are the first published descriptions of the principle of neuraxial blockade.
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One of the early published descriptions of implementing a compiler.
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However, the contrast is not robust in any dialect; most published descriptions say that contrastively nasal vowels are present in the speech of only some (usually older) speakers.
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