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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Storybook :: Story (v. t.) To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story.
Adjective :: Adjective (n.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, a wise ruler, wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler..
Otter :: Otter (n.) Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia..
Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon..
Tore :: Tore (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
Wormian :: Wormian (a.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist..
Cometographer :: Cometographer (n.) One who describes or writes about comets.
Topographer :: Topographer (n.) One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land..
Locus :: Locus (n.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.
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..
Cherub :: Cherub (n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x..
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
Cosmographer :: Cosmographer (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth..
Teller :: Teller (n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer..
Tenonian :: Tenonian (a.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist..
Leviathan :: Leviathan (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture..
Circumduction :: Circumduction (n.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface..
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..
Femalize :: Femalize (v. t.) To make, or to describe as, female or feminine..
Tractrix :: Tractrix (n.) A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
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