Describe
To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
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Describe Quotations
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Stephen Hawking
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
John Keats
Describe Translations
describe in Danish is beskrive
describe in Dutch is beschrijven
describe in German is beschreibe, beschreiben, beschreiben
describe in Latin is designo, demonstro, designo, exsequor
describe in Norwegian is beskrive
describe in Portuguese is descreva
describe in Spanish is describir
describe in Swedish is skildra, beskriva
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