What is describe?

  • (verb): Make a mark or lines on a surface.
    Synonyms: trace, draw, line, delineate
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on describe:

Classification Of Ethnicity In The United Kingdom - National Statistics - Ethnicity Categories
... groups Gypsy or Irish Traveller Irish White and Black Caribbean Any other White background, please describe Gypsy / Traveller White and Black African Mixed / multiple ethnic ...
Lew Kowarski - Recently Discovered Documents
... The documents describe how to control the chain reaction, describe the components of a nuclear reactor, and describe how to produce plutonium ...
Tory Socialism
... by historians, particularly of the early Fabian Society, to describe the governing philosophy of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli ... The phrase has also been used by Vernon Bogdanor to describe the thinking of Ferdinand Mount ... The phrase ewas also used to describe both Stanley Balswin and Harold MacMillan in the 1930s, and by Tony Judge in his biographical study of Robert Blatchford ...
Lusters
... A range of terms are used to describe lustre, such as earthy, metallic, greasy, and silky ... (For this reason, different sources can often describe the same mineral differently ... species.) The terms are frequently combined to describe intermediate types of lustre (for example, a "vitreous greasy" lustre) ...
Matching Theory (macroeconomics)
... theory, is a mathematical framework attempting to describe the formation of mutually beneficial relationships over time ... Matching theory has been especially influential in labor economics, where it has been used to describe the formation of new jobs, as well as to describe ...

More definitions of "describe":

  • (verb): Give a description of.
    Synonyms: depict, draw
  • (verb): To give an account or representation of in words.
    Synonyms: report, account

Famous quotes containing the word describe:

    Oh, who will now be able to relate how Pantagruel behaved in face of these three hundred giants! Oh my muse, my Calliope, my Thalie, inspire me now, restore my spirits, because here is the ass’s bridge of logic, here is the pitfall, here is the difficulty of being able to describe the horrible battle undertaken.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    Archaeologists have uncovered six-thousand-year-old clay tablets from southern Babylonia that describe in great detail how the adults of that community found the younger generation to be insolent and disobedient.
    Lawrence Kutner (20th century)