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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb describe has 4 senses

• describe(v = verb.communication) depict, draw - give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
is one way to exposit, expound, set forth
Derived form noun description₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

• describe(v = verb.communication) account, report - to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"
is one way to inform
Derived forms noun description₂, adjective descriptive₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

• describe(v = verb.contact) delineate, draw, line, trace - make a mark or lines on a surface; "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
is one way to mark
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

• describe(v = verb.cognition) discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name - identify as in botany or biology, for example; Array
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

describe

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

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describe

Description

VB describe, set forth, draw a picture, picture, portray, characterize, particularize, narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's battles over again, unfold a tale, tell, give an account of, render an account of, report, make a report, draw up a statement, detail, enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to particulars, descend to details, itemize.

Representation

VB copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, V, represent, delineate, depict, depicture, portray, take a likeness, catch a likeness, hit off, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, figure, shadow forth, shadow out, adumbrate, body forth, describe, trace, copy, mold, dress up, illustrate, symbolize, paint, carve, engrave, personate, personify, impersonate, assume a character, pose as, act, play, mimic, hold the mirror up to nature.

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