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Meaning describe meaning

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describe Verb

— If you describe something, you say what it looks like, sounds like, acts like, etc. Their wedding day, as described by Emma in her book, was "a perfect September day." The problems described above in Chapter 2, are found around the world. Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman. These cheeses have a certain smell, as described in the section on soft cheeses (p69). The hospital described her condition as serious. The instructions describe how to put it together. In the story, he describes falling through the air for hours. — If something describes a circle, arc, etc., it follows that shape. His finger slowly described a circle in the water.

describe

— verb (= draw) give a description of He drew an elaborate plan of attack — verb (= account) to give an account or representation of in words Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental — verb (= trace, draw, line) make a mark or lines on a surface draw a line trace the outline of a figure in the sand — verb (= identify) identify as in botany or biology, for example

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depict explain portray narrate express delineate tell define relate draw represent report characterize picture illustrate trace recite paint name interpret distinguish characterise state sketch show recount qualify identify elucidate description denote account write up write out say refer to outline mention line limn key out key indicate expound discover demonstrate word voice typify transcribe

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Describe

Conjugation describe conjugation

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describe · verb

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Simple sentences

How would you describe yourself?
Bill Clinton spoke in ambiguous language when asked to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Can you describe the object?
Words cannot describe the beauty.
Describe that accident in detail.
It is beyond the scope of the present work to describe all the components that comprise Emmet's architectural style.
Can you describe the situation you were in?
Can you describe to me the difference between black tea and green tea?
Words cannot describe the horror I felt.
I cannot describe my feelings.
Describe the accident in detail.
You can describe reality but not know it.
Words cannot describe the horror I experienced.
Write a paragraph using adjectives to describe the person's appearance.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Describe a tourist attraction you would like to visit.
Could you describe to the jury what happened?
Tom can't find the right words to describe his feelings for Mary.

Movie subtitles

There are no words that could describe it.
Describe her?
Can you describe the man who pawned this watch?
Uh, can you describe this shirt?
The English books only describe the bleaching power.
It is indeed hard to describe.
As hard to describe as life or, or death.
Well, I'm trying to describe the shock. You see.
I can't describe her, but the first thing you notice are her dimples when she smiles.
Can you describe her?
You can never describe truly what you've not been through yourself.
You heard Dr. Keinmetz describe the condition known as. -.hypnoleptic catalepsy?
I'll call you every morning and describe what I'm going to wear.
I would describe myself as a contact man.
Why should I who am so good to you be as vicious and evil as you describe me?
She passed right by me. Describe her.
His story of that other woman on the cliff.. Is one of the most fantastic tales I've ever heard in a courtroom. He couldn't even describe her.
If he didn't get a good look at the woman, he shouldn't try to describe her.
You failed to describe the woman.
And The very fact that countless Thousands of you are listening tonight is proof To fling in The teeth of These cynics and skeptics that The public does care and does propose To do something about The appalling conditions I have Tried To describe tonight.
How would you describe this gentleman, Clayton?
I sure wish that watchman could describe the guy he almost caught.
It's hard to describe.
I should be interested to hear you describe your symptoms.
And now, my friend, you are to see something. that one truly can describe as art.
I am. how shall I describe it?
They describe the locale.
I can describe your charming companion.
You can hardly describe me as an expert in hunting lost leopards.
There's no other way to describe him.
Just how would you describe the man you saw on the observation platform?
We'll describe what we found and then pile it on a bit, huh?
All the delicious things mama used to describe to me in paris. She spoke of my food in paris?

News and current affairs

This missing science would describe processes, and how entire systems evolve.
But, however we describe it, the idea that the masses should be owners is growing everywhere.
A person may describe him or herself as, for example, a liberal, yet at same time demand that the government continue subsidizing energy, education, or housing.
I find it difficult to accept those who tend to describe the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as only a measure to build up Soviet national security.
Both research teams describe how the use of a chemical inhibitor can kill tumor cells that have either a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene defect causing hereditary breast cancer.
This is arguably genocide, a word used by the U.S. government but by few others to describe what is going on in Darfur.
But even great philosophers - Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and others - could only describe current mental events and behaviors; they could not explain their causes.
Indeed, in the twenty-first century, we still cannot describe health except in terms of the absence of disease.
They must be embedded in a much more complex institutional framework, which I would describe as the liberal order.
These three dimensions--liberal, democratic and social--describe the modern European nation state.
The intent of the crime was so ambitious, and its scope so great, that a new word - genocide - was coined to describe it.
This explains why the Vatican chooses to describe the pedophiliac transgression of its clergy as sins rather than crimes.
I describe the project in detail in my book Expert Political Judgment: How good is it?
Serious criticism comes from unexpected places: philosophers you knew and learned from, scientists to whom you had entrusted your priceless collections to describe.
Let us start with some simple aeronautic dynamics, using an analogy that my PIMCO colleague, Bill Gross, came up with to describe the economic risks facing the American economy.
Our work with data for the years 1952-1971 showed that the long-term bond market back then was pretty easy to describe.
Not surprisingly, defectors nowadays describe an environment of social breakdown, petty crime, and a Darwinian struggle for survival.
But to describe a challenge as global is not to argue that the remedy is to be found only in an ambitious, formal, and universal treaty.
It may seem strange to describe the greatest financial crisis since the 1930's as a symptom of a bigger problem.
The humanities describe the ascent of the modern world.
Finding solutions that fulfill Einstein's equations - space-times that describe the curvature of our universe - is difficult, so his theory was slow to catch on.
It is not easy to describe the enormous level of responsibility I feel.

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