Dictionary Entry
describe
describe is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
- 4intransitive verb
To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
- 5verb
identify as in botany or biology, for example
- 6verb
to give an account or representation of in words
"Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"
- 7verb
give a description of
"He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
- 8verb
make a mark or lines on a surface
"draw a line"
"trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
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