describe
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
give a description of
He drew an elaborate plan of attack
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- description derivation
- characterization derivation
Sense 2 verb
to give an account or representation of in words
Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental
Types & categories
- inform hypernym
Related & opposite
- news report derivation
- explanation derivation
- description derivation
- report derivation
- report derivation
- descriptive derivation
Sense 3 verb
make a mark or lines on a surface
draw a line
Types & categories
- mark hypernym
- construct hyponym
- inscribe hyponym
- circumscribe hyponym
- circumscribe hyponym
- write hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
identify as in botany or biology, for example
Related & opposite
- identification derivation
- identity derivation
- name derivation
- naming derivation
- identifiable derivation
- class entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | description |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | characterization |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | exposit |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | represent |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | delineate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | outline |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | news report |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | explanation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | description |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | report |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | report |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | descriptive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | inform |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lineation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | delineation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tracing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | limning |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | drawing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tracer |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tracing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | line |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lineation |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | draw |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | draw |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | mark |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | construct |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | inscribe |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | circumscribe |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | circumscribe |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | write |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | identification |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | identity |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | name |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | naming |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | identifiable |
| 4 | entails | Related & opposite | class |