describe

Significat (English)

  1. To represent in words.
  2. To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
  3. To give rise to a geometrical structure.
  4. To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
  5. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

Freqüència

B2
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de‧scribe
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/dɪˈskɹaɪb/
Etimologia (English)

From Middle English descriven, from Old French descrivre, from Latin dēscrībō (“I copy off, transcribe, sketch off, describe in painting or writing”), from dē (“off”) + scrībō (“write”); see scribe and shrive. Displaced native Old English āmearcian.

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