Definition of Describing

1. Verb. (present participle of describe) ¹

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Definition of Describing

1. describe [v] - See also: describe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Describing

descreens
descrescendo
descrescendos
descriable
describability
describable
describableness
describe
described
described video
describent
describents
describer
describers
describes
describing (current term)
descried
descrier
descriers
descries
description
description logic
descriptional
descriptions
descriptive
descriptive-geometry
descriptive adjective
descriptive anatomy
descriptive anthropology
descriptive clause

Literary usage of Describing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"THIS is the time of the year when the country is flooded with circulars describing all sorts of ' aids ' for use in teaching or studying botany. ..."

2. The Vicar of Wakefield: Der Landprediger Von Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1857)
"But it is needless to attempt describing the particular characters of young people that had seen but very little of the world. ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"A half-tone was made from the photograph and this was reproduced in the Grosset & Dunlap's house organ, in connection with an article describing the window ..."

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