Definition of Describe

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Describe

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.

To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.

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

To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

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Describe Quotations

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
Tiger Woods

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Stephen Hawking

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
John Keats

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy Buffett

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams

Describe Translations

describe in Danish is beskrive
describe in Dutch is beschrijven
describe in German is beschreibe, beschreiben, beschreiben
describe in Latin is designo, demonstro, designo, exsequor
describe in Norwegian is beskrive
describe in Portuguese is descreva
describe in Spanish is describir
describe in Swedish is skildra, beskriva

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