Characterize

1. v. t. To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of.
2. v. t. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.
3. v. t. To engrave or imprint.
4. v. t. To indicate the character of; to describe.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.