Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“describes” is a form of

describe

[dɪˈskɹaɪ̯b] verb

Forms describes describing described

  1. verb (transitive) To represent in words. “The feeling is difficult to describe, but not unpleasant.”
  2. verb (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out. “to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle”
  3. verb (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure. “The function describes a very complex surface.”
  4. verb (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa. “The fungus was first described by a botanist.”
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

Synonyms

portray bewrite betell depict report delineate draw bill chronicle explain narrate recount relate represent set forth state account trace line identify discover key key out distinguish name

Antonyms

burlesque caricature distort exaggerate misrepresent

Etymology

From Middle English descriven, from Old French descrivre, from Latin dēscrībō (“to copy off, transcribe, sketch off, describe in painting or writing”), from dē (“off”) + scrībō (“write”); see scribe and shrive. Displaced native Old English āmearcian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
  2. verb To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
  3. verb To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.

Etymology [L. describere, descriptum; de- + scribere to write: cf. OE. descriven, OF. descrivre, F. décrire. See Scribe, and cf. Descry.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “describe”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “describe” (best matches first).

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