Definition of Characterize
Characterize
To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.
To engrave or imprint.
To indicate the character of; to describe.
To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of.
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Characterize Quotations
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
Tiger Woods
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Barney Frank
I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.
Markus Wolf
Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff.
Gray Davis
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
Adam Schiff
I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.
Suzanne Vega
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
Daniel Yergin
Characterize Translations
characterize in Dutch is karakteriseren, kenmerken, tekenen
characterize in German is charakterisieren, charakterisiere
characterize in Portuguese is caracterize
characterize in Spanish is caracterizar
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