0 past simple and past participle of describe
1 to say or write what someone or something is like:
[ + question word ] Let me describe (to you) how it happened.
She described Gary as shy.
So far, scientists have described 15,482 marine fish species, up from 15,304 a year ago.
The scientific name for mountain laurel is Kalmia latifolia, from Peter Kalm, an 18th-century botanist who first described the species.
His teacher described him as a noisy, disruptive influence in class.
It couldn't by any stretch of the imagination be described as a beautiful city.
He insisted on describing his operation in graphic detail while we were eating lunch.
The newly described South American species would have been slightly smaller than today's emperor penguins.
It is then essential that such plasmas can be accurately described in their fundamental parameters, namely electron density and temperature.
Its qualitative behaviour is described in terms of its self-similar solutions.
