Word Finder - described

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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.

She described where it was.

So you've just described Josh.

The goal of our offered summer sojourn was described as a seasonal cabin on a small lake in near Wolfboro, New Hampshire.

Carmen described the help she needed and where they lived.

Howie described a car parked with an open trunk on the far side of the fence.

But if Brockville is just like Howie described, we have to get Quinn and Howie on the same page.

Later, Howie failed to locate a nebulously described address.

Mr. Cooms was apprehensive about what he described as an assault on our safety.

Dean didn't dare say he hadn't noticed and described the tall red head in general terms.

The way he described her, I don't think she paid much attention to the mundane things in life.

He changed into a clean shirt as he briefly described hearing the accident, climbing down to investigate and discovering Billy Langstrom's body.

Alex's expression could only be described as awed.

While she would never have described her parents as over-protective, their devotion to their children was never in doubt.

Cassie couldn't help but smile at the way Darcie described her fellow gender.

The bed Martha described as queen size was squeezed against the far wall.

Even if Brockville proved to be all he described, what would that tell us?

Howie described the car, license plate, and man in exacting detail.

While Howie hadn't viewed the show, he was incensed at the man's attitude as described by Martha.

Cynthia was on the office phone to New Jersey, doing "wedding things," as she described them.

Martha, the little girl who originally told us about them, described them differently from what Fitzgerald found.

This skin, with the skull and antlers, was sent to Paris, where it was described in 1866 by Professor Milne-Edwards.

Her only interruption was when Dean described the bones Fitzgerald had allegedly located.

He cringed as Cynthia described her giving two different names, allowing Fred yet another shot at constructing a mystery.

Edith Shipton appeared, as Cynthia had described, to be more nervous than a fifth-grader on speech day.

In fact, her emotion at the moment would better be described as uncomfortable – if not outright dread.

He was close to her age and, though she wouldn't have described him as handsome, there was something about his features that she found attractive.

I ran across it one time and thought it described Dad.

By Dr Paul Matschie several races of the African elephant have been described, mainly, as already mentioned, on certain differences in the shape of the ear.

One of these experiments may be described.

The power of the Internet and associated technologies we have so far described, combined with our new understanding of the genome, dooms disease to eventual extinction.

In her brief absence I described how Howie squirmed and twisted while sleeping.

Everything he described could, as Quinn so succinctly put it, be a mind constructed fairy tale.

It described how Timothy's mother had left her son in their enclosed yard to answer a phone call.

Have you experienced any of the symptoms Dr. Mallard described?

It really is as spectacular as he described.

It reminded Dean of the cigarette tin Martha had described.

One note described in two sentences a Sunday trip to the Public Gardens while another mentioned three years had passed since the sisters had seen one another.

Ryland added, The doctor was very surprised how unaffected Donnie appeared after we described his dysfunctional family environment.

Once off the walkway, Dean ran down the path until he spotted a pile of equipment and what had been described as fixed belay.

Dean tried to remember how Ryland had described the method of securing the other end of the line to the climber's body.

He could only be described as a living Adonis–except he wasn't exactly alive.

Connor's description of being in the holding cell 'losing his mind and living a nightmare' accurately described his feelings.

There were no media reports, but one intelligence spot report described the carnage.

The names and offices visited recurred regularly as Mayer had described.

Instead of designer thongs or flimsy lace things, Ethel wore the plainest of cotton panties, the type described by past generations as 'practi­cal.'

The story described an annual one-week bike tour of the Colorado Rockies and the address for information was circled and underlined.

Then, this afternoon, you didn't act or sound like the Jeffrey Byrne everyone described.

There he passed nine studious years, chiefly devoted to classical reading, Plato and Tacitus being his favourite authors, because "the former described the ideal man, and the latter man as he really is."

Vico has been generally described as a solitary soul, out of harmony with the spirit of his time and often directly opposed to it.

The site was five acres, and the building is described in the letters patent " as a fitting and noble college mansion in honour of the most glorious Virgin Mary and St Bernard in Northgates Street outside the Northgate of Oxford."