Definition of describe

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Describe (v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class..

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Carpologist :: Carpologist (n.) One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
Castile Soap :: Castile soap () A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap..
Laocoon :: Laocoon (n.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil..
Aforesaid :: Aforesaid (a.) Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified..
Hottentotism :: Hottentotism (n.) A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.
Gothic :: Gothic (n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2..
Tore :: Tore (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
Femalize :: Femalize (v. t.) To make, or to describe as, female or feminine..
Unspeakable :: Unspeakable (a.) Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage..
Cosmologist :: Cosmologist (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
Differentiate :: Differentiate (v. t.) To express the specific difference of; to describe the properties of (a thing) whereby it is differenced from another of the same class; to discriminate.
Behemoth :: Behemoth (n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24..
Element :: Element (n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former..
Trajectory :: Trajectory (n.) The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air..
Trochoid :: Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids..
Otter :: Otter (n.) Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia..
Character :: Character (v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.
Tractrix :: Tractrix (n.) A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
Nix :: Nix (fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition..
Obversion :: Obversion (n.) The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as immediate inference by privative conception..
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