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What does describe mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word describe? Here's what it means.

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.
On the presidential campaign trail, though, it might be more accurate to describe him as needfully verbose.
He contended that bracketing enables one to objectively describe the phenomena under study.
It's almost impossible to describe their unforced exactness, their unrushed economy.
In fact, it would be fair to describe her as unromantic in her attitudes to love, marriage and compatibility.
In Thailand, our Hindu tradition is called Brahmanism, after the Brahmanas, the second book of the Vedas which describe ritual worship.

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