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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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..
Nondescript :: Nondescript (n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable..
Topographer :: Topographer (n.) One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land..
Describer :: Describer (n.) One who describes.
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..
Obversion :: Obversion (n.) The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as immediate inference by privative conception..
Hodgkin''s Disease :: Hodgkin's disease () A morbid condition characterized by progressive anaemia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician..
Trochoid :: Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids..
Indefinable :: Indefinable (a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Faunist :: Faunist (n.) One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.
Representer :: Representer (n.) One who shows, exhibits, or describes..
Leviathan :: Leviathan (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture..
Cometographer :: Cometographer (n.) One who describes or writes about comets.
Hemiprotein :: Hemiprotein (n.) An insoluble, proteid substance, described by Schutzenberger, formed when albumin is heated for some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone..
Costume :: Costume (n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described..
Tore :: Tore (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
Descriptive :: Descriptive (a.) Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age..
Crystallographer :: Crystallographer (n.) One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography..
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