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define Verb

— To define is to state exactly what a word means. The dictionary defines the word "define" as "to state exactly what a word means".

define

— verb (= specify) determine the essential quality of — verb give a definition for the meaning of a word Define 'sadness' — verb determine the nature of What defines a good wine? — verb show the form or outline of The tree was clearly defined by the light The camera could define the smallest object — verb (= specify, fix) decide upon or fix definitely fix the variables specify the parameters

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determine specify set fix explain describe limit clarify delineate delimit establish designate clear up characterize appoint stipulate prescribe make clear interpret distinguish assign qualify pin down expound demarcate delimitate definition decide characterise title test term style stipulation stick specification settlement settle on settle select secure rinse restrict resolve refine read quantify prescipt positive portray

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Conjugation define conjugation

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define · verb

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Simple sentences

How do you define happiness anyways?
If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.
Can you clearly define this word?
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.
Some words are hard to define.
There is a second way to define the Gabriel-Roiter measure which may be more intuitive.
Is it possible to define the colour red by pointing to an apple?
It is hard, perhaps even impossible, to define normal sensory perception.
Learn to define your goals.
Love is hard to define.
Context helps to define what is really meant.

Movie subtitles

Who can define the boundary between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
How would you define ballet, Lady Neston?
Define schizophrenia.
How do you define money?
And now the carabinieri contacted the Mafia, whose relationship with the outlaws is hard to define.
The agony of creation has finally forced him. to define the indefinable.
Wanting to define an infinite number, I write a horizontal eight and divide it by one.
Well, if I do not comprehend but I can define it, I am getting near poetry, which seems to be nearer to life than we suspect.
Not in the way we define life.
Define.
Well, it's rather difficult to define.
Depends how you define unnecessary.
You know, Ron, the great Austrian-French rivalry which has served to define the sport for the last 10 years is essentially being carried on by Jacques Boyriven.
It's not so easy to define as one might think, lad.
And my favorite part is the way Maya used shadows to define my arms.
Define it for me as you see it.
The witness must define her terms, if the jury is to clearly understand her.
Someone who tries to play a part who tries to define, to create a character and to go beyond himself, his feelings, his ideas.
Today, if you were to be asked the question, by someone who doesn't know the cinema, asking you, Fritz Lang, how would you define what man is, and more particularly, one who is a film director?
I would define him as anti-social, going on the information we've received from the political office.
I fail to define your reason for leaving.
Can you, like, define the meaning of love?
I want to define your illness, by the color of your nails.
I'll send the lawyer. We've to define all from the legal point of view too, I'll be there.
To define a degree of relationships and set yourself a limit.
Space reigns. it is like an airy wave gliding over surfaces, absorbing their visible emanations to define and model them. It carries them along like a scent, like an echo, and scatters them everywhere like some imponderable dust.
Define the weather forecast more precisely.
To live not for what attracts you, but for a God that no one can understand or define.
A proper name. - Define.
The first, uncoordinated youth rebelling against nothing it can define.
You define yourself a good sheperd? - Yes.
Will the witness define a subversive organization?

News and current affairs

In other words, liberty is not the right of individuals to define their own lives, but the right of the state to restrict individual freedom in the name of a security that only the state can define.
Both factors challenge us to define, in the longer term, more sustainable patterns of production and consumption.
Now these issues define domestic political agendas.
Others define hegemony as the ability to set the rules of the international system; but precisely how much influence over this process a hegemon must have, relative to other powers, remains unclear.
It was during this era - roughly from 1948 to 1973 - that sociologists found that a majority of Americans had come to define themselves not as working class, but as middle class.
But Obama has also struggled to define the terms of a possible grand bargain.
But Obama will have to define a clearer US policy, addressing China's rapid rise under an authoritarian regime that aggressively pursues border claims and whips up nationalism at home.
Beyond states, the world's many NGOs are growing fast and multiplying in their influence, but without formal rules to define their role in the international system.
Whether his successors can revive and complete the Palestinians' historic mission depends on how they define their goal.
For example, Americans may define religiosity differently than Middle Easterners, with perhaps a weaker attachment to religious beliefs than is true in Islamic countries.
Instead, the war metaphor continues to define the US response and that of several of America's allies.
Obviously, you will not choose rules that define citizenship in terms of a particular cultural identity.
How can you define yourself to the West, when the West has so spectacularly and visibly changed its appearance, if not its essence?
While polling suggests that attitudes are influenced more by ethnicity than religion, both help to define identities and mindsets.
The challenges that most define this era - nuclear proliferation, terrorism, global climate change, and pandemic disease - can be managed only collectively.
The evidence today suggests that this pattern can be repeated when the United States departs Mesopotamia and leaves Iraqis to define their own fate.
The Egyptian revolution now faces the exacting task that confronts all successful revolutions: how to define the future.
Argentina's ongoing search is an untold, fascinating story of how we Argentines imagine and define who we want to be in the next decades.
Islamic fundamentalists define jihad as a war of terror against the West and call for an Islamic caliphate from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
They define their religion as moderate and liberal, with many upholding gay rights and abortion, both anathema to evangelical Christians.

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