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{
"term": "describe",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "describe",
"heSheIt": "describes"
},
"pastSimple": "described",
"pastParticiple": "described",
"ingForm": "describing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to say what somebody/something is like",
"sensetop": "describe somebody/somethingdescribe somebody/something to somebodydescribe somebody/something for somebodydescribe somebody/something as somethingdescribe yourself as somethingdescribe how, what, etc…describe doing something",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The next section **describes** our findings **in detail**.",
"contextForm": "describe somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "to describe a method/process/situation"
},
{
"text": "Can you describe him to me?",
"contextForm": "describe somebody/something to somebody"
},
{
"text": "They described for us exactly what happened.",
"contextForm": "describe somebody/something for somebody"
},
{
"text": "The man was described as tall and dark, and aged about 20.",
"contextForm": "describe somebody/something as something"
},
{
"text": "She describes herself as an artist.",
"contextForm": "describe yourself as something"
},
{
"text": "Describe how you did it.",
"contextForm": "describe how, what, etc…"
},
{
"text": "**Words cannot describe** what I felt at that moment."
},
{
"text": "Witnesses described seeing strange lights in the sky.",
"contextForm": "describe doing something"
},
{
"text": "The area I grew up in is described as semi-rural."
},
{
"text": "She described briefly what happened."
},
{
"text": "He goes on to describe very vividly how Caesar was stabbed to death."
},
{
"text": "He goes on to describe vividly how Lincoln was assassinated."
},
{
"text": "Observers have described the situation in the country as ‘serious’."
},
{
"text": "The shirt was variously described as ‘pink’, ‘salmon’ and ‘rose’."
},
{
"text": "Their daily lives are described in detail."
},
{
"text": "This process is fully described in section three of the book."
},
{
"text": "Words cannot describe our feelings at that moment."
},
{
"text": "Jim was described by his colleagues as ‘unusual’."
},
{
"text": "The current political situation in Vietnam is described in chapter 8."
},
{
"text": "Production data were collected and analysed by methods previously described for Trial 1."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["accurately", "exactly", "in detail"],
"verb + describe": ["cannot", "be difficult to", "be hard to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make a movement that has a particular shape; to form a particular shape",
"sensetop": "describe something",
"labels": "(formal or specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The shark described a circle around the shoal of fish."
},
{
"text": "The road describes a long loop around the town."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskraɪb/",
"audio": "de/describe/describe__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskraɪbz/",
"audio": "de/describe/describes__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskraɪbd/",
"audio": "de/describe/described__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/describe/describing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskraɪb/",
"audio": "de/describe/describe__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskraɪbz/",
"audio": "de/describe/describes__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskraɪbd/",
"audio": "de/describe/described__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈskraɪbɪŋ/",
"audio": "de/describe/describing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin describere, from de- ‘down’ + scribere ‘write’."
}