describe
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
describe/dɪˈskrʌɪb/
▶verb
- 1 give a detailed account of (someone or something) in words.
- 2 mark out or draw (a geometrical figure).
– derivatives
describable adjective,
describer noun.
describable adjective,
describer noun.
– origin ME: from L. descript-, describere, from de- ‘down’ + scribere ‘write’.
'describe' also found in these Oxford entries:
begin
- blazon
- call
- character
- characterize
- define
- delineate
- descriptive
- descriptor
- descry
- detail
- ergative
- expectant
- gas laws
- gauge theory
- gay
- glorify
- infer
- inform
- misdescribe
- mute
- nameless
- parse
- phat
- portray
- profile
- qualify
- quote
- refer
- romanticize
- Rorschach test
- sardonic
- scribe
- set
- shoot
- show-and-tell
- subtle
- sum
- synoptic
- term
- trace
- understate
- unsociable
- unutterable
- verb
- write
- yellow
