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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Feeling :: Feeling (n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
Depaint :: Depaint (v. t.) To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict..
Nix :: Nix (fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition..
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..
Cosmologist :: Cosmologist (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
Identify :: Identify (v. t.) To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property..
Carpologist :: Carpologist (n.) One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
Mythical :: Mythical (a.) Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful.
Linkage :: Linkage (n.) A system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used to describe straight lines and curves in the plane..
Brownian :: Brownian (a.) Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below..
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..
Sketch :: Sketch (n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
Cometographer :: Cometographer (n.) One who describes or writes about comets.
Describer :: Describer (n.) One who describes.
"""lilliputian " :: Lilliputian (n.) One belonging to a very diminutive race described in Swift's Voyage to Lilliput..
Galvanologist :: Galvanologist (n.) One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.
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..
Schneiderian :: Schneiderian (a.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century..
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.
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..
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