Describe Dɪˈskraɪb Section Detail Happened Verb Findings Method/Process/Situation

• the next section describes our findings in detail.
• to describe a method/process/situation
• can you describe him to me?
• they described for us exactly what happened.

describe

Verb Forms

1. to say what somebody/something is like
• The next section describes our findings in detail.
• to describe a method/process/situation
• Can you describe him to me?
• They described for us exactly what happened.
• The man was described as tall and dark, and aged about 20.
• She describes herself as an artist.
• Describe how you did it.
• Words cannot describe what I felt at that moment.
• Witnesses described seeing strange lights in the sky.

Extra Examples

• The area I grew up in is described as semi-rural.
• He described briefly what happened.
• He goes on to describe very vividly how Caesar was stabbed to death.
• He goes on to describe vividly how Lincoln was assassinated.
• Observers have described the situation in the country as ‘serious’.
• The shirt was variously described as ‘pink’, ‘salmon’ and ‘rose’.
• Their daily lives are described in detail.
• This process is fully described in section three of the book.
• Words cannot describe our feelings at that moment.
• Jim was described by his colleagues as ‘unusual’.
• The current political situation in Vietnam is described in chapter 8.
• Production data were collected and analysed by methods previously described for Trial 1.
2. to make a movement that has a particular shape; to form a particular shape
• The shark described a circle around the shoal of fish.
• The road describes a long loop around the town.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin describere, from de- ‘down’ + scribere ‘write’.