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What does describe mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To represent in words.
  2. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
  3. (mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
  4. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
  5. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
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It is a seed of hope within what you rightly describe as a society based upon violence.
And it is this disdain for the other kind of ambition that has led observers to describe him as unserious.
On the presidential campaign trail, though, it might be more accurate to describe him as needfully verbose.
In fact, it would be fair to describe her as unromantic in her attitudes to love, marriage and compatibility.
It's almost impossible to describe their unforced exactness, their unrushed economy.
There's nothing wrong with a big Mac but you'd hardly describe it as brain food.

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