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describe
English
Etymology
From Middle English descriven, from Old French descrivre, from Latin d?scr?b? (“I copy off, transcribe, sketch off, describe in painting or writing”), from d? (“off”) + scr?b? (“write”); see scribe and shrive. Displaced native Old English ?mearcian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??sk?a?b/, /d?s?k?a?b/
- Rhymes: -a?b
- Hyphenation: de?scribe
Verb
describe (third-person singular simple present describes, present participle describing, simple past and past participle described)
- (transitive) To represent in words.
- 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk, November 2, 2014
- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
- 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk, November 2, 2014
- (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
- 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
- Uncas described an arc in the water with his own blade, and as the canoe passed swiftly on, Chingachgook recovered his paddle, and flourishing it on high, he gave the war-whoop of the Mohicans.
- 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
- (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
- (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
- (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
Synonyms
- (to represent in words): portray, betell, depict, report; see also Thesaurus:describe
- (to represent in writing): bewrite
Derived terms
- abovedescribed
- aforedescribed
Related terms
- describable
- description
- descriptive
- descriptivism
- descriptivist
- descriptor
- scribe
Translations
Further reading
- describe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- describe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- escribed
Latin
Verb
d?scr?be
- second-person singular present active imperative of d?scr?b?
Scots
Etymology
From English describe.
Verb
describe (third-person singular present describes, present participle describin, past describit, past participle describit)
- to describe
Spanish
Verb
describe
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of describir.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of describir.
describe From the web:
- what describes a noun
- what describes the conversion of adp to atp
- what describes a verb
- what describes a change in velocity
- what describes the diet of a saprotroph
- what describes how sci is marked
- what describes the outer core
- what describes the specific information about a policy
photograph
English
Etymology
photo- +? -graph.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??.t?.?????f/, [?f??.t???.??????f]
- (US) IPA(key): /?fo?.t?.???æf/, [?f??.??.????æf]
Noun
photograph (plural photographs)
- A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- photograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)
- (transitive) and (intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
- 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing
- He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
- 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing
- (transitive, figuratively) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
- 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands
- He is photographed on my mind.
- 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands
- (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.
Translations
Anagrams
- phagotroph
photograph From the web:
- what photography
- what photographers do
- what photography means
- what photographs to submit to nvc
- what photography means to me
- what photographic process was rival to the daguerreotype
- what photography makes the most money
- what photography equipment do i need
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