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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Schneiderian :: Schneiderian (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century..
Lichenographist :: Lichenographist (n.) One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.
Ampersand :: Ampersand (n.) A word used to describe the character /, /, or &..
Adenography :: Adenography (n.) That part of anatomy which describes the glands.
Nondescript :: Nondescript (n.) A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable..
Describe :: 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..
Gothic :: Gothic (n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2..
Indescribable :: Indescribable (a.) Incapable of being described.
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..
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..
Galvanologist :: Galvanologist (n.) One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.
Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..
Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil..
Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius..
Phylloxera :: Phylloxera (n.) The diseased condition of a vine caused by the insect just described.
Graphical :: Graphical (a.) Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.
Curve :: Curve (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line..
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
Oblongum :: Oblongum (n.) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid..
Descrive :: Descrive (v. t.) To describe.
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