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characterize English

Meaning characterize meaning

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characterize Verb

— To see someone or something a particular way (often negative). — To determine the characteristics of someone or something.

characterize

— verb (= characterise) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover — verb (= characterise) be characteristic of What characterizes a Venetian painting?

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characterise mark distinguish qualify describe define represent portray depict typify discriminate denote turn to be a characteristic of title their tell apart symbolize style stand for stamp show shape rate plot picture paint on mould mold marked make clear leave its indentify impersonate imitate identify formative form feature differentiate designate classify by betoken bespeak be act

Topics characterize topics

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Simple sentences

To one of the head psychologists, the depression criteria didn't quite characterize this group of girls.
If you had to characterize your wife in three words, which ones would you pick?
Is this kid autistic or does he have ADHD? His behavior is hard to characterize either way.

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The line of questioning up to now is a familiar one. seeking to falsely characterize the accused. by the clever manipulation of semantics.
Without an apology, Chongqing would suffer what many Orientals characterize as a severe loss of face.
It is the one you requested to characterize imperialism.
That would make it twice as hard to isolate and characterize.
What's more, I'll characterize them.
I wouldn't characterize her as a bit.
Apparently, a decision was made. to characterize pure evil as a spiritual force, even within the darkness in the hearts of men.
How would you characterize your relationship with Capt Picard?
Mr. Ryan, would you characterize this as a first-strike weapon?
Angela, do not, I repeat do not characterize the discharge.
That's how I characterize him.
I characterize the unit's performance as excellent.
How would you characterize his work as an attorney?
How would you characterize Miss Johnson physically?
Do you characterize their actions as similar to yours?
Please instruct counsel not to characterize the plaintiff.
How would you characterize your prior relationship with Ms. Johnson?
So you would characterize this behavior as flirting or sexual?
To characterize the arrest, what would you say?
How would you characterize your relationship with Lois Lane?
How would you characterize his remarks?
These symptoms, would you characterize them as acute or somatic?
It takes a great deal of information to make or even to characterize a living thing.
These are the two sides the dual strengths, the essential opposites that characterize human thinking.
Doctor, would you characterize that incident as self-destructive?
But you do acknowledge that this institution and the book upon which this institution is based characterize homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.
I wouldn't characterize it that way.
How would you characterize the theme of this book?
That is not how we characterize them today.
How would you characterize it?
Well, I wouldn't characterize.
These disturbing thoughts you mentioned-- would you characterize them as hallucinations?
And how would you characterize him? Honest.
It's difficult to listen to you characterize the assassination of a member of our royal family as standing idly by.

News and current affairs

This region receives information from all the senses and in turn controls the various networks that inspire the speeding heart, sweaty palms, wrenching stomach, muscle tension and hormonal floods that characterize being afraid.
Another technique is transference: accusing opponents of having motives or using methods that characterize the accuser himself.
WASHINGTON, DC - In the maelstrom of events and news that characterize the current global crisis, it is often difficult to keep a clear head and a sense of what is really going on.
Yet, given the chaos and paralysis that increasingly characterize Palestinian politics, that opportunity will go untaken.
Many of the problems that characterize the complex US-Mexican relationship will be ameliorated if Mexico can sustain rapid economic growth.
If public and private investment decisions are driven only by the easily measured and easily defined, we will miss out on the breakthrough moments that characterize so much of human achievement and advancement.
Everyone knew about the underinvestment, over-exploitation, and lawlessness that characterize Putin's Russia, but no international power was interested in discussing, let alone combatting, it.
One might characterize this as a dialogue of the deaf, except that most deaf people manage to communicate with each other quite well, through sign language and other means.
Assisting Iraq's political regeneration may be the most difficult task, given the many religious, ethnic, geographic and political divisions that characterize Iraqi society.
To cope with the transnational challenges that characterize a global information age, the international community will have to continue to develop a series of complementary networks and institutions that supplement the global framework of the UN.
To understand Zidane's popularity, one need only set his modesty and attention to others against the arrogance and indifference that characterize the behavior of so many other celebrities, including football players.
Five years into this new era, how should we characterize it?
If it can, it will be better able to respond not only to the Russian challenge, but also to many of the other challenges that characterize today's rapidly shifting global environment.
Whether or not they make Miliband the next prime minister (in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, or both), they are likely to characterize elections elsewhere as well in the years ahead.
Here, the country already has an advantage: relatively high levels of equity and low mortgage-to-value ratios typically characterize real-estate purchases by China's household sector.
The combination of the two is, I believe, behind the feeling of powerlessness that is now affecting the whole of Europe, and that may appear to characterize social democracy in particular.
Reflecting on Europeanism means inquiring into the set of values, ideals and principles that characterize Europe.
From a European perspective, the hunger for dividends and the emphasis on short-term performance goals that characterize these institutions is both amazing and frightening.
A case in point is the dramatically low levels of violence that characterize the present, a fact uncovered by Steven Pinker in his 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature.
The United Nations, the G-7, the European Union, and the United States all characterize it as an illegal act.
As a result, they are approaching negotiations skeptically, rather than emphasizing the sense of mutual obligation that should characterize the alliance.
SEOUL - As China continues its unremitting rise, people throughout East Asia are wondering whether their states will ever be able to achieve the peaceful, stable relations that now characterize Europe.
None of these advances would have been possible had researchers been operating according to the three-year plans that characterize much of current academia.

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