A name functions as a rigid designator, while a definite description does not.

Particular instances are designated by proper names or definite descriptions.

His particular interest was in "definite and indefinite descriptions."

The next definite description of team players passing the ball to each other comes in 1823 in Suffolk.

He viewed proper names of the sort described above as "abbreviated definite descriptions".

The definite description is proper if X applies to a unique individual or object.

Here definite description refers again to the type of formulation "The."

Take Russell's analysis of definite descriptions as an example.

The problem is general to what are called "definite descriptions."

Russell's solution was, first of all, to analyze not the term alone but the entire proposition that contained a definite description.