Usually means: Explain characteristics or qualities verbally.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. describe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. describe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. describe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. describe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. describe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Describe, describe: Wordnik
  7. describe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. describe: Wiktionary
  9. describe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. describe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. describe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Describe, describe: Dictionary.com
  13. describe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Describe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Describe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. describe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. describe: Rhymezone
  18. describe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. describe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. describe: Free Dictionary
  21. describe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. describe: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. describe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. describe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. describe: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. describe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. describe: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To represent in words.
verb:  (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
verb:  (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
verb:  (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

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