text: the dissent disagrees,contending that the word describe decides this case in luna favor because a description can not refer to features that the thing being described does not have.post,at opinion of sotomayor.says the dissent if a craigslist ad describes an apartment as having an laundry,a dishwasher,rooftop access,central,and a closet,it does not describe an apartment lacking rooftop access.ibid.that is true enough,but irrelevant.the dissent is right that when someone describes an object by a list of specific characteristics,he means that the item has each of those attributes.but things are different when someone uses a more general descriptor even when that descriptor as here,a federal statute itself has a determinate set of elements.it would be natural,for example,to say in the exact syntax of a that a person followed the itinerary for a journey through brazil that is described in a lonely planet guide if he traveled every leg of the tour other than a brief detour north to petrópolis.the lonely planet,on the road destination brazil,all internet materials as last visited may.and similarly,a person would say that she had followed the instructions for setting up an iphone that are described in the user manual even if she in fact ignored the one specifically highlighted there telling her to begin by read ing important safety information to avoid injury.apple,set up iphone.