Definition of describe

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Describe (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty..

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Schneiderian :: Schneiderian (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century..
Generatrix :: Generatrix (n.) That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent..
Cosmographer :: Cosmographer (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth..
Nondescript :: Nondescript (a.) Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable..
Haliographer :: Haliographer (n.) One who writes about or describes the sea.
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..
Histographer :: Histographer (n.) One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.
Phylloxera :: Phylloxera (n.) The diseased condition of a vine caused by the insect just described.
Described :: Described (imp. & p. p.) of Describ.
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..
Wolffian :: Wolffian (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology..
Leviathan :: Leviathan (n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture..
Sense :: Sense (v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface..
Describable :: Describable (a.) That can be described; capable of description.
Gyre :: Gyre (n.) A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit..
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..
Blazon :: Blazon (v. t.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon..
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..
Depict :: Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.
Indescribable :: Indescribable (a.) Incapable of being described.
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