Describe
- v. i. To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
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.