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describing

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

描述,说明,叙述,描述的

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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.

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

  • He also described reading widely to buttress his leadership skills—mostly biographies of figures like Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Howard Hughes, but also science treatises like Steven Wolfram’s A Project to Find the Fundament Theories of Physics.

  • Thoughtful, personal communication has also been key, said Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of Hyatt Hotels, who describes the year for the company and the travel industry as “extraordinarily painful.”

  • That’s the word Superintendent Cindy Marten chose to describe the state of the district during her annual speech this week.

  • “Unstoppable” is not exactly the adjective that Delphine Duckett, a grandmother of six, would have chosen to describe the district’s operations.

  • In order to properly classify mosaics, Domokos started describing them with two numbers.

  • They are fathers, describing to the rest of us what I thought was a widely acknowledged reality.

  • As a writer, I tried mainly to stick close to the concrete particulars of the events and the performances I was describing.

  • At times, it reads as if he is describing the backdrop of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

  • Describing by biographers as an avid writer of letters, little of his correspondence appears available to public view.

  • They would speak up, but in tones still soft and placid; and Spahn often overheard them describing him as a “beautiful person.”

  • Whether we take this phrase as describing the object or result of founding that college, it is a case of Concurrence.

  • It is used in describing the operation of cutting in twain the animal sacrificed at the ratification of a covenant.

  • As land is increasing everywhere in value more pains is taken in describing it, than formerly.

  • Mere clerical errors or mistakes in describing it may be corrected even after it has been destroyed.

  • One little part he dexterously omitted, describing the cause of death—disease of the heart.