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Definition of Characterizes
1. characterize [v] - See also: characterize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Characterizes
Literary usage of Characterizes
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 (1907)
"Ordonez regards these craters as among the latest manifestations of volcanic
activity, and characterizes them as seeming unduly large for the feebleness of ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"It prefers living to dead animals, which distinguishes it from the vulture tribe,
and flesh to fish, which characterizes it from water-birds. ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"The ascent to the Kumaraswami pagoda passes over an extensive bed of lava
conglomerate ; and the same feature characterizes part of the ..."
4. Chinese Immigration in Its Social and Economical Aspects by George Frederick Seward (1881)
"Spirit of exaggeration characterizes the statements of anti-Chinese partisans.
Statements of mass meeting held in San Francisco in. ..."
5. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"It well characterizes the personal nature of sovereignty in tk south that Charles's
first impulse was to challenge Pedro to single combat and thus to settle ..."