transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪskraɪb ]
( describes, describing, described)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
We asked her to describe what kind of things she did in her spare time...
She read a poem by Carver which describes their life together...
Just before his death he described seeing their son in a beautiful garden.
VERB : V wh , V n , V -ing
2.
If a person describes someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.
He described it as an extraordinarily tangled and complicated tale...
Even his closest allies describe him as forceful, aggressive and determined...
He described the meeting as marking a new stage in the peace process.
VERB : V n as n , V n as adj , V n as -ing