describe [ de·scribe ]
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1. Give a detailed account in words of.
he described his experiences in a letter to his parents
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2. Mark out or draw (a geometrical figure)
on the diameter of a circle an equilateral triangle is described
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3. Move in a way which follows the outline of (an imaginary geometrical figure)
a single light is seen to describe a circle
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1. Late Middle English from Latin describere, from de- ‘down’ + scribere ‘write’.

