Describe
[dɪ'skraɪb]
Definition
(verb.) give a description of; 'He drew an elaborate plan of attack'.
Typist: Moira--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
(v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
(v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
(v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Delineate, trace, draw, mark out.[2]. Represent (by words), portray, depict, explain, recount, narrate, relate, give an account of, set forth.[3]. Characterize, specify the peculiarities of, set forth the character of.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Draw, delineate, portray, explain, illustrate, define, picture, depict,represent, relate, narrate, recount
ANT:Confound, confuse, mystify, misrepresent, caricature, distort
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Definition
v.t. to trace out or delineate: to give an account of.—adj. Describ′able.—n. Describ′er.
Typist: Loretta
Examples
- Describe your father as a horsebreaker. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Undoubtedly, he said, the form of government which you describe is a mixture of good and evil. Plato. The Republic.
- You describe three-fourths of the world, Caroline. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I wish I could describe in words the compassion I felt for this miserable and misguided girl. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- How can I describe my sensations on beholding it? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He had only to describe himself as a seven months' child. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Enough then of the perfect State, and of the man who bears its image--there is no difficulty in seeing how we shall describe him. Plato. The Republic.
- He described her ladyship as willing to acknowledge that she had spoken over-hastily. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had invented, he informed us, a new mixture to moisten paint with, which he described as a vehicle. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A highly characteristic event at the age of six is described by his sister. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He said that he would return my letter if I would bring him a certain document which he described in my husband's despatch-box. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Snagsby describes over and over again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No word describes it so felicitously as that one. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nearly every book concerning Galilee and its lake describes the scenery as beautiful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It describes a sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon's school. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On the Friday night, as Betteredge truly describes it, she had found me alone at the billiard-table. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Palladius, four centuries later, describes the same sort of machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I have describes enough of my early life to give an impression of the whole. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The really excellent gymnastic is twin sister of that simple music which we were just now describing. Plato. The Republic.
- And it shall be well with us both in this life and in the pilgrimage of a thousand years which we have been describing. Plato. The Republic.
- He is describing, with a certain subdued enthusiasm, the probable technical developments of military method in the next war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describing his virtues, his magnificence, his talents, and his good actions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He sent a model of this to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers at Birmingham, of which he was president, together with a report describing it in full. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They would not measure round the waist more than so much--describing to me the circumference with his hands. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The State which we have been describing is said to be wise as being good in counsel? Plato. The Republic.
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