(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
(v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(3) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(4) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(5) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(6) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(7) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(8) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(9) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(10) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(11) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(12) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(13) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(14) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(15) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(16) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(17) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(18) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(19) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(20) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
Indescribable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being described.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blyth said what the children were subjected to was “indescribably awful”.
(2) Once more unto the valley of the kings, then, as another Silicon monopolist issues a decree, in this case to the indescribably junior entity that is Norway.
(3) "So the thrill of being able to declare that two people of the same sex are actually married is indescribable."
(4) Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival , said today, "We are profoundly grateful to Claudio Abbado for all the magnificent, unforgettable, and indescribable experiences that he gave us in the past 47 years.
(5) "The indescribable events here amount to the worst form of terrorism.
(6) She added: "I still cannot go into her bedroom to sort out her clothes, because the pain of her not being there is indescribable."
(7) Trillaphon was a name for an antidepressant, the bad thing was the mostly indescribable interior sense of being constantly underwater with no surface, or of "every cell in your body being sick to its stomach".
(8) The persistent, often almost indescribable quality of the distress suggests a central disturbance of the mechanism of pain experience involving the limbic system and the endogenous opiates.
(9) I never thought I’d live to see the day that something so terrible, so indescribable would happen in Paris,” Franck, a customer in a bar near the Bataclan told BFMTV.
(10) US president Barack Obama also issued a statement saying: "As a father, I cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing."
(11) In November, Breivik wrote a long letter complaining about the conditions in which he was being held, describing the pen he was forced to write with as "an almost indescribable manifestation of sadism".
(12) The pain me and my family have been through is indescribable and it is particularly saddening that all this happened because I was following procedure, and simply doing my job without fear or favour.
(14) It is war – it is indescribable,” said Pierre Meys, spokesman for the Brussels fire department.
(15) The experience of coping with lung cancer--from diagnosis to treatment to inevitable death--is indescribably difficult for the cancer patient.
(16) "It seems so unfair that I have to have an epidural now, when I didn't have it when the pain was so indescribably awful," she says weakly.
(17) And yet it is hard to describe – indescribable, until you're up there, looking down – because the mountain is something other than its substance, something more.
(18) There was indescribable chaos, and there were victims everywhere,” Alphonse Youla, a baggage handler, told Belgian TV.
(19) The heartache it puts prospective parents through is indescribable.
(20) It is almost impossibly, indescribably romantic and really does rank as a once-in-a-lifetime holiday.