Dictionary Definition
describe
Verb
2 to give an account or representation of in
words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically
continental" [syn: report, account]
3 identify as in botany or biology, for example
[syn: identify,
discover, key, key out, distinguish, name]
4 make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a
line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" [syn: trace, draw, line, delineate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From describe < describoVerb
- To represent in words.
- The feeling is difficult to describe, but not unpleasant.
- To give rise to a geometrical structure.
- The function describes a very complex surface.
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Translations
to represent in words
to give rise to a geometrical structure
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
be characteristic, bring to life, character, characterize, chronicle, construe, define, delineate, demarcate, depict, detail, diagnose, differentiate, distinguish, draw, earmark, evoke, explain, express, give words to, identify, interpret, keynote, label, limn, mark, mark off, mark out, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, read, read into, recite, recount, relate, render, report, represent, retail, set apart, set forth, set
the pace, set the tone, sketch, sound the keynote,
specify, style, take, take it that, take to mean,
trace, traverse, understand, understand by,
write