describe / dɪˈskraɪb /

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describe 的定义

v. 有主动词 verb

de·scribed, de·scrib·ing.

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

describe 近义词

v. 动词 verb

explain in speech, writing

更多describe例句

  1. 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.
  2. Employees of the various businesses who received a ticket described their interactions with police as positive.
  3. 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.”
  4. 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.
  5. “We need those people who are in the community to describe the situation in their communities,” Usman said.
  6. The man, Joshua Kemp, told what police describe as “a bogus story that quickly fell apart.”
  7. It is not only clerics and Islamic ideologues who use offensive words and images to describe the sexual life of Westerners.
  8. The latest novel from Samantha Harvey is truly superb, but left its reviewer at a loss for how to describe it.
  9. But throughout all this, Malone describe herself as “oddly responsible,” wanting to help her moms pay the bills as young as 10.
  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.
  11. It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.
  12. But that she could calmly tell him about it, that she could deliberately describe this effect upon her of another man—!
  13. 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.
  14. To describe the joy, the intense and tumultuous delight of that moment, were beyond the power of words.
  15. It is impossible to describe the thrilling effect produced by this striking ceremony.