Describe
Describe verb - To give a representation or account of in words.
To explain and describe are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To explain" with "Describe", this terms are similar.
To explain
Describe and to explain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Describe" instead a verb phrase "To explain".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- account and describe
- account and to explain
- justify and describe
- justify and to explain
- illuminate and describe
- illuminate and to explain
- clarify and describe
- clarify and to explain
- explain and describe
- explain and to explain
- elucidate and describe
- elucidate and to explain
- explicate and describe
- explicate and to explain
Both terms in one sentence
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Part of Sophie's curse in Howl's Moving Castle includes the inability to explain or describe the curse to anyone else.
Source: Tongue-Tied -
When the interaction between two hypothetical characters is needed to explain or describe some system, they are nearly always called Alice and Bob.
Source: Alice and Bob - Even after they "go good" they continually describe themselves as "victims of circumstance" to explain away their former lives of crime.
Source: Playing the Victim Card
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