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describable

/dih-skrahyb/US // dɪˈskraɪb //UK // (dɪˈskraɪb) //

可描述的,可描述性,可描述,可描写的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·scribed, de·scrib·ing.

    • : to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
    • : to pronounce, as by a designating term, phrase, or the like; label: There are few people who may be described as geniuses.
    • : to indicate; be a sign of; denote: Conceit, in many cases, describes a state of serious emotional insecurity.
    • : to represent or delineate by a picture or figure.
    • : Geometry. to draw or trace the outline of: to describe an arc.

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Examples

  • What that means, as Doughty described and we verified, is that for the time being — maybe for the first time in our adult lifetimes — we can experience the island without a crowd for company.

  • Employees of the various businesses who received a ticket described their interactions with police as positive.

  • Over a century ago, Proust inhaled a fresh-baked madeleine that triggered vivid memories of his childhood, describing the experience in “Swann’s Way,” the first of seven volumes that compose “In Search of Lost Time.”

  • This feat, described November 19 at a symposium hosted by Columbia University, is another example of the tremendous progress under way in linking brains to computers.

  • “We need those people who are in the community to describe the situation in their communities,” Usman said.

  • The man, Joshua Kemp, told what police describe as “a bogus story that quickly fell apart.”

  • It is not only clerics and Islamic ideologues who use offensive words and images to describe the sexual life of Westerners.

  • The latest novel from Samantha Harvey is truly superb, but left its reviewer at a loss for how to describe it.

  • But throughout all this, Malone describe herself as “oddly responsible,” wanting to help her moms pay the bills as young as 10.

  • I asked him to describe the U.S. mission that will likely revert back to the embassy it was more than a half century ago.

  • It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.

  • But that she could calmly tell him about it, that she could deliberately describe this effect upon her of another man—!

  • Words fail to describe my feelings as I watched the clothes come off him and dry ones go on just as if hands were arranging them.

  • To describe the joy, the intense and tumultuous delight of that moment, were beyond the power of words.

  • It is impossible to describe the thrilling effect produced by this striking ceremony.