|
|
|
|
See my other projects: weather, dict, payphones, mailboxes, receipts, found photos, court documents, what is my ip?, and more at sorabji.com.
Describe
DESCRIBE, v.t. [L. To write.]
1. To delineate or mark the form or figure; as, to describe a circle by the compasses.
2. To make or exhibit a figure by motion; as, a star describes a circle or an ellipsis in the heavens.
3. To show or represent to others in words; to communicate the resemblance of a thing, by naming its nature, form or properties. The poet describes the Trojan horse. The historian describes the battle of Pharsalia. The moralist describes the effects of corrupt manners. The geographer describes countries and cities.
4. To represent by signs. A deaf and dumb man may describe a distant object. Our passions may be described by external motions.
5. To draw a plan; to represent by lines and other marks on paper, or other material; as, to describe the surface of the earth by a map or chart.
6. To define laxly.
describe appears in definitions for these words:
Adenography Adjective Aerography Agate Allegory Amphiscil Anthropologist Anti-christ Apennines Astrography Atlantica Boat Bug Carpologist Chalk Characterize Characterized Chert Cherub Chorographer Circle Coppiously Cosmographer Cosmography Cosmologist Crustalogist Crystalographer Cyclograph Cycloid Definable Define Definer Delineate Delineated Depaint Depainted Depict Depicted Describable Describe Describer Descriptiv Diagraphic Diagraphical Dirigent Draft Draught Draw E Ecliptic Elliptic Epithet Equinoctial Evolute Evolution Evolvent Fabulous Faintly Faithfully Flint Galvanologist Geographer Geography Gibe Graphometer Gyration Hit Horologiography Humboldite Humorously Hydrographer Hydrography Hydrolite Hyperbolically Ichnography Iconography Impress Indescribable Jacamar Jehovah Justly Know Lamely Latitude Latrobite Leelite Leviathan Lichenographist Line Lively Lymphography Mangostan Micrography Monecian Monograph Monography Mortar Musimon Myographist Myography Neurologist Non-descript Ophiology Orb Orbit Ornithologist Orologist Oryctography Osteologist Ouranography Overpaint Paint Painted Pantograph Papilionaceous Passionary Personate Phraseless Phrygian Physiography Plane Portray Portrayed Portrayer Predicament Premunire Process Range Ray Real Represent Represented Representer Ruinous Scenography Sciagraphy Scruple Selenography Sourness Stratography Terrier The Therapeutics Tiar Tickle Topographer Trajectory Undefinable Undefined Undescribed Versify Worth Zoographer Zoography Zoologist
Adenography Adjective Aerography Agate Allegory Amphiscil Anthropologist Anti-christ Apennines Astrography Atlantica Boat Bug Carpologist Chalk Characterize Characterized Chert Cherub Chorographer Circle Coppiously Cosmographer Cosmography Cosmologist Crustalogist Crystalographer Cyclograph Cycloid Definable Define Definer Delineate Delineated Depaint Depainted Depict Depicted Describable Describe Describer Descriptiv Diagraphic Diagraphical Dirigent Draft Draught Draw E Ecliptic Elliptic Epithet Equinoctial Evolute Evolution Evolvent Fabulous Faintly Faithfully Flint Galvanologist Geographer Geography Gibe Graphometer Gyration Hit Horologiography Humboldite Humorously Hydrographer Hydrography Hydrolite Hyperbolically Ichnography Iconography Impress Indescribable Jacamar Jehovah Justly Know Lamely Latitude Latrobite Leelite Leviathan Lichenographist Line Lively Lymphography Mangostan Micrography Monecian Monograph Monography Mortar Musimon Myographist Myography Neurologist Non-descript Ophiology Orb Orbit Ornithologist Orologist Oryctography Osteologist Ouranography Overpaint Paint Painted Pantograph Papilionaceous Passionary Personate Phraseless Phrygian Physiography Plane Portray Portrayed Portrayer Predicament Premunire Process Range Ray Real Represent Represented Representer Ruinous Scenography Sciagraphy Scruple Selenography Sourness Stratography Terrier The Therapeutics Tiar Tickle Topographer Trajectory Undefinable Undefined Undescribed Versify Worth Zoographer Zoography Zoologist
|
