Word Direct Answers

What does "describe" mean?

Describe: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class. [Obs.] Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book. Josh. xviii.
  2. 3.To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

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