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Describe

Describe | Described | Describes

Describe meaning

To represent in words. | To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out. | To give rise to a geometrical structure.

Example sentences (20)

Some examples of terms used to describe bones include the term "foramen" to describe a hole through which something passes, and a "canal" or "meatus" to describe a tunnel-like structure.

That was how the newspaper chose to describe to describe an Arab terrorist murdering seven Jews during religious services in a synagogue.

I think we fell in love with the fact that we had gotten a member of ISIS who would describe his life in the caliphate and would describe his crimes.

The English word ) only came into usage to describe Christ in the mid 17th century -- specifically as victim of our sins, and then later to describe people who suffered from criminal acts.

A machine asked to describe its statistical model of a dog will render it according to its training data and describe it in terms of the building blocks into which it has decomposed it.

To describe Freetown as congested, overcrowded or overloaded do not begin to describe the current situation.

At the Oxford Dictionary, the word of the year was 'toxic', an adjective people increasingly use describe to describe views, relationships, cultures and even politicians.

How would you describe this guy, and how do you think he would describe himself?

According to James Ernest in his book Contact Juggling, most people will describe juggling as "throwing and catching things"; however, a juggler might describe the act as "a visually complex or physically challenging feat using one or more objects".

Anti-abortion groups who favor greater legal restrictions on abortion, including complete prohibition, most often describe themselves as "pro-life" while abortion rights groups who are against such legal restrictions describe themselves as "pro-choice".

A second rank symmetric traceless tensor order parameter is used to describe the orientational order of a nematic liquid crystal, although a scalar order parameter is usually sufficient to describe uniaxial nematic liquid crystals.

Diplomacy Kowtow came into English in the early 19th century to describe the bow itself, but its meaning soon shifted to describe any abject submission or groveling.

Edition, (1989) Use as a metaphor The term is also used figuratively to describe something as sharp or piercing, and also to describe the twisting, boring motion of using a gimlet.

Functors often describe "natural constructions" and natural transformations then describe "natural homomorphisms" between two such constructions.

However, the term "junior college" has evolved to describe private two-year institutions, whereas the term "community college" has evolved to describe publicly funded two-year institutions.

In ancient china, people use the shi-ke system to describe the daytime, and the geng-dian system to describe the time at night.

Joanne Hollows further identifies a gendered component to the celebration of transgressive themes in cult films, where male terms are used to describe films outside the mainstream while female terms are used to describe mainstream, conformist cinema.

More formally, a non-zero number can be used for two purposes: to describe the size of a set, or to describe the position of an element in a sequence.

Net-based netlists usually describe all the instances and their attributes, then describe each net, and say which port they are connected on each instance.

New words may be brought into use to describe new terms or better describe complex interpretations of sexual orientation.