Word Finder - describe

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To represent in words.

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The feeling is difficult to describe, but not unpleasant.

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To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.

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to describe a circle by the compasses;   a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle

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To give rise to a geometrical structure.

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The function describes a very complex surface.

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To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.

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The fungus was first described by a botanist.

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To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

I can't describe how helpless I felt.

I can't describe how strange this is, Father.

She wanted to express her feelings for him, but mere words could not describe them.

I can only describe the mood of our return trip as pensive.

She wouldn't describe him as being tall.

I can't describe the feeling.

Beautiful did not describe him.

The present was my next experiment of this kind, which I purpose to describe more at length, for convenience putting the experience of two years into one.

Could you describe him?

Anxious would better describe her feelings.

How can this future I describe not be ours?

The Temple records describe the innovations he introduced on his return.

If the word normal could in any manner describe what we were doing, we slowly slipped into a somewhat normal routine.

The apex in this case will describe a circle, or rather a spiral, as it is elongating all the time, pointing to all points of the compass in succession.

I can't begin to describe to you what was going through my mind after you fell off that cliff.

Beyond the introduction of the spider line it is unnecessary to mention the various steps by which the Gascoigne micrometer assumed the modern forms now in use, or to describe in detail the suggestions of Hooke, 4 Wren, Smeaton, Cassini, Bradley, Maskelyne, Herschel, Arago, Pearson, Bessel, Struve, Dawes, &c., or the successive productions of the great artists Ramsden, Troughton, Fraunhofer, Ertel, Simms, Cooke, Grubb, Clarke and Repsold.

How could she describe it without sounding like she had lost her mind?

We now describe some of the salient features of the example.

Can you describe him?

Many of these definitions describe an ideal state of things rather than realities.

The Czechs rightly refer to this period 300 years ago when they describe themselves as a once oppressed nation.

Only it could not describe the nature of this highest good; and therefore it had to abandon itself to imagination and aesthetic impressions.

Droysen introduced the fashion (1836) of using it to describe particularly the latter phases of Greek culture from the conquests of Alexander to the end of the ancient world, when those over whom this culture extended were largely not Greek in blood, i.e.

Alex liked being in control, but most of the time she wouldn't describe him as being controlling.

We were provided with wide range of data bases allowing us to better describe various vehicles.

It's hard to describe music in the written word.

The term Ajax was coined last February to describe a combination of Web technologies, including JavaScript and XML.

How would you describe your music to hostile aliens?

Whiskey connoisseurs describe Scapa as having an amber, gold color, with a perfume of vanilla and honey.

A*C*G maps are tools to describe the effect of planetary angularity upon the earth for a given moment of time.

Abstract Jones matrices describe the polarization, or spin angular momentum, of a light beam as it passes through an optical system.

You should produce printed copy or screen dumps that are appropriately annotated to describe their purpose.

The term derives from the notion of cultural brokering developed by anthropologists to describe the activities of individuals who connect local with national worlds.

We describe the architecture of some of these sequence kernels.

Gothic architecture is the term used to describe the building styles which were used in the Medieval years dating from 1200 to 1500.

An alternative way to model these processes is to use a cellular automata (CA) model to describe the cells.

I'll describe our aims, our lab automation technology, and what " Grid-enabling " means for this at the moment.

Find Me On Air Monday to Saturday 10 am â 2 pm Describe Your Show Happy, chatty and sometimes batty!

Keyword searches for words or simple phrases that describe your interest, for example, canals or viking burial.

Some witnesses describe her as being in ` a gray Victorian dress `, other that the gown is a black crinoline.

Back to Revision Session Index Revision Session Two alternating current Describe what is meant by alternating current.

We then describe recent developments to CHRONOS, a time-first stack decoder.

This is the basis of the drug-induced parkinsonism I shall describe next.

The hosts of the Gur Khan are called by Moslem historians Al-Turk-al-Kuffar, the kafir or infidel Turks; and in later days the use of this term "kafir" led to misapprehensions, as when Vasco da Gama's people were led to take for Christians the Banyan traders on the African coast, and to describe as Christian sovereigns so many princes of the Farther East of whom they heard at Calicut.

Epistaxis-The medical term used to describe a bleeding from the nose.

Overriding is a term used to describe bony fragments that overlap and shorten the total length of a bone.

Children are often less able to accurately describe their symptoms or discuss their fears, and so should be encouraged to talk about them with parents.

Fetal alcohol effect (FAE) is a term used to describe alcohol-exposed individuals whose condition does not meet the full criteria for an FAS diagnosis.

It is not correct, however, to describe people with narcolepsy as sleeping longer or spending more time asleep in a 24-hour period than people without the disorder.

Whereas children tend to think about things one aspect at a time, adolescents describe themselves and others in more differentiated and complicated terms and find it easier to look at problems from multiple perspectives.