describe
[dɪˈskɹaɪ̯b]
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
Transitive verb
verb
To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The feeling is difficult to describe, but not unpleasant."
- "The geographer describes countries and cities."
- "Several witnesses describe seeing lights in the sky that night."
- "Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century.""
- "[…]his lordship was out of humour. That was the way Chollacombe described as knaggy an old gager as ever Charles had had the ill-fortune to serve. Stiff-rumped, that's what he was, always rubbing the rust, or riding grub, like he had been for months past."
- "Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *(s)kreybʰ-, descriven, descrivre, dēscrībō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [dɪˈskɹaɪ̯b]
- British English: [dɪˈskɹaɪ̯b]