Characterize
['kærəktə'raɪz]
Definition
(verb.) be characteristic of; 'What characterizes a Venetian painting?'.
Typed by Duane--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.
(v. t.) To engrave or imprint.
(v. t.) To indicate the character of; to describe.
(v. t.) To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of.
Typist: Trevor
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Distinguish, designate, mark.[2]. Describe, set forth the character of, specify the peculiarities of.
Typist: Mason
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mark, distinguish, describe, particularize, style, designate, individualize,specify, identify
ANT:Hint, insinuate, sketch, suggest, adumbrate
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Examples
- As will be seen, this machine bears but little resemblance to any of the modern machines, but it embodied the three essential features which characterize most all practical machines, viz. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Different varieties, if not species, characterize the different islands. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Without doubt, all these things characterize historic philosophies more or less. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Abuse and disuse characterize the older view of the state: guardian and censor it has been, provider but grudgingly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His conduct has been--we will say _strange_ just now, till we have time to characterize it by a more exact epithet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And these two traits are precisely what characterize the democratically constituted society. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Roger Bacon's writings are characterized by a philosophical breadth of view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- How far otherwise he would have characterized him had his temper not been upset, I scarcely need intimate. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is characterized by sud denness, conciseness, and immediate certainty. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Passionate desire of sympathy, and ardent pursuit for a wished-for object still characterized me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He engaged in a course of electrical experiments with all the ardour and thirst for discovery which characterized the philosophers of that day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Poverty, dirt, and squalid misery characterized its appearance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A similar variation in structure had characterized a species of extinct ruminant in In dia. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Being asked what he thinks of the proceedings, characterizes them (his strength lying in a slangular direction) as a rummy start. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was admitted within that sacred boundary which divides the intellectual and moral nature of man from that which characterizes animals. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Timmy