Definition of describe

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Describe (v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class..

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Cosmologist :: Cosmologist (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
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..
Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..
Behemoth :: Behemoth (n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24..
Identity :: Identity (n.) The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe..
Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.
Nondescript :: Nondescript (a.) Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable..
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
"""lilliputian " :: Lilliputian (n.) One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's Voyage to Lilliput..
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..
Lichenographist :: Lichenographist (n.) One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.
Histographer :: Histographer (n.) One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.
Parse :: Parse (n.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be..
Curve :: Curve (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line..
Indefinable :: Indefinable (a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Zoographer :: Zoographer (n.) One who describes animals, their forms and habits..
Haliographer :: Haliographer (n.) One who writes about or describes the sea.
Leviathan :: Leviathan (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture..
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