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described

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

描述,描述的,说明,描述了

Related Words

portray描写,描绘,刻画,描画represent代表,代表着,表示,体现在term术语,任期,条款,期depict描写,描绘,描绘出,描写了specify指定,具体说明,具体介绍,指定的outline纲要,概要,纲举目张,概述chronicle纪事,编年史,纪实,纪事本末illustrate图解,图示,说明,图解说明express表示detail细节,详细介绍,详细情况,详细说明name名称,名字,名,姓名characterize表征,表明,定性为,表述call呼叫,称呼,调用,打电话给construe解释,解释为,解释一下,理解recount详述,叙事,叙述,复述report报告,报道,报导,举报label标签,标签的,签签,签标tell告知,讲述,告诫,告知对方interpret解释,解读,翻译,诠释define定义,界定,确定

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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbexplain in speech, writing
Synonyms
call呼叫,称呼,调用,打电话给characterize表征,表明,定性为,表述chronicle纪事,编年史,纪实,纪事本末construe解释,解释为,解释一下,理解define定义,界定,确定depict描写,描绘,描绘出,描写了detail细节,详细介绍,详细情况,详细说明express表示illustrate图解,图示,说明,图解说明interpret解释,解读,翻译,诠释label标签,标签的,签签,签标name名称,名字,名,姓名outline纲要,概要,纲举目张,概述portray描写,描绘,刻画,描画recount详述,叙事,叙述,复述report报告,报道,报导,举报represent代表,代表着,表示,体现在specify指定,具体说明,具体介绍,指定的tell告知,讲述,告诫,告知对方term术语,任期,条款,期communicate传达,传达信息,传递,传达意见delineate划定,勾勒出,勾画出,划线distinguish辨别,区分,识别,辨认draw绘制,画画,画,抽奖elucidate阐释,阐发,阐释一下,阐明epitomize标榜,标志着,象征着,标示exemplify例证,例示,表明,例证了explicate解说,解读,阐释,解说词expound阐释,阐述,阐发,阐明illuminate发光,发明,照亮,发亮image形象,图像,影像,画面impart传授,灌输,传递,传输limn肢体,肢体语言,肢体动作,肢体残疾narrate讲述,叙述,叙事,述说paint涂料,画画,绘画,漆particularize具体化,具体说明,具体化为,具体介绍picture图片,照片,画面,图画recite诵读,吟诵,背诵,吟唱rehearse排练,预演,排演,排练时relate有关的,有关,有关方面,有关的问题sketch简图,素描,草图,简述state国家,国家的,国家的情况trace痕迹,追踪,跟踪,踪迹transmit传递,转发,传送,传播convey image传达形象,传达图像,传递图像,传递形象make apparent显示,体现在,显示出,体现出make clear表明,说明,说清楚,阐明make sense of捉摸不透,捉摸不定,搞清楚,捉摸不透的make vivid形象化,鲜活地表现出来,逼真mark out标出,标记,标注,标明write up撰文,撰写,写作,编写

Examples

  • In 1998, she co-wrote a law review article, titled “Catholic Judges in Capital Cases,” that described the tensions.

  • She described the recent wave of mergers as “marriages of weakness,” not strength.

  • As we described it back in 2017, “The company’s app lets people find out who, nearby, is already heading out to a restaurant that they like, then tack on an order of their own.”

  • In climate science, vulnerability generally describes the likelihood that a country will experience negative impacts from storms and other extreme weather events.

  • A high school teacher in Arlington gave students a question that asked them to insert the name of a chemical element to fill out a sentence describing how George Floyd died beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer in May.

  • Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.

  • It was seen by a small delegation of star-struck prelates and dignitaries who later described the film as “moving.”

  • The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.

  • Spencer, 27,  is variously described as a writer and a stand-up comic.

  • The training, at least as described by the U.S. military, is incredibly basic.

  • You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.

  • In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.

  • What they would have said to the £150,000 spent on the present building can be better imagined than described.

  • By what word is the relation between “pendulum” and “a smile and tear” described?

  • They told us of their visit to the Great Eastern, what a gigantic ship it was, what a marvel, and described its every feature.

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