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Definition of describe

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Describe (v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle..

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Character :: Character (v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.

Circumduction :: Circumduction (n.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface..

Nondescript :: Nondescript (n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable..

Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..

Ampersand :: Ampersand (n.) A word used to describe the character /, /, or &..

Storybook :: Story (v. t.) To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.

Paint :: Paint (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.

Element :: Element (n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former..

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix..

Adenography :: Adenography (n.) That part of anatomy which describes the glands.

Tore :: Tore (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.

Hydrographer :: Hydrographer (n.) One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters..

Mythology :: Mythology (n.) A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks..

Brownian :: Brownian (a.) Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below..

Cylindroid :: Cylindroid (n.) A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body..

Galvanologist :: Galvanologist (n.) One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.

Nix :: Nix (fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition..

Tortoise :: Tortoise (n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color..

Terrier :: Terrier (n.) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like..

Depict :: Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.