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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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My sisters and I understood very little of the unspeakable reality he sought to describe.
On the presidential campaign trail, though, it might be more accurate to describe him as needfully verbose.
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.
To describe the restaurant's service it's worth reading the review of our guest-fan.
It is a seed of hope within what you rightly describe as a society based upon violence.

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