Sentence examples for by description from inspiring English sources

Material analysis may be called descriptive when the constituents are only known by description, not by acquaintance.

By description, I'm being kind of like an analyst.

But Oscar never mentions eggs Benedict, either by name or by description.

Knowledge by description is possible using concepts formed on the basis of sensation.

The commission has placed information on identifying the dangerous carts by description and serial number on its Web site, www.cpsc.gov.

This will be followed by description of the exterior designing process.

Where appropriate, discussion of policy is followed by description of procedures to be used by programs to implement specific policies.

The scenarios were represented by description of the applied management techniques, quantifiable landscape outputs and 3D panoramas from fixed viewpoints.

"And the more the idea is rounded out by description and anticipation, the more it is believed and articulated, the more possible it becomes," he said.

In the case of the spatiotemporal universe which empirical experience is ambitious to explore, most knowledge is (to employ Bertrand Russell's useful distinction) knowledge by description, not acquaintance.

It proceeds to things that have to be learnt even in their primary aspect by description or diagram; and ends with the more abstruse operations of natural forces.