described
past simple and past participle ofdescribe
| 单词 | described |
| 释义 | described past simple and past participle ofdescribe describe verb[T] uk/dɪˈskraɪb/us/dɪˈskraɪb/A2 to say or write what someone or something is like: Could you describeyourattacker? He described thepaintingindetail. [+ question word]Let me describe (toyou)howithappened. She described Garyasshy. formal If you describe ashape, youdrawit ormovein adirectionthatfollowsthelineof it: He usedcompassesto describe acircle. biologyspecialized torecognizeaplantoranimalasbelongingto aparticulartype, and give it ascientificname: Sofar,scientistshave described 15,482marinefishspecies, up from 15,304 ayearago. Thescientificnameformountainlaurelis Kalmia latifolia, from Peter Kalm, an 18th-centurybotanistwho first described thespecies.
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Bending, twisting and curving Painting, drawing & printing Classifying and creating order Species & genders Examplesofdescribeddescribed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is then essential that such plasmas can be accuratelydescribedin their fundamental parameters, namely electron density and temperature. From theCambridge English Corpus Its qualitative behaviour isdescribedin terms of its self-similar solutions. From theCambridge English Corpus These were 4 x 6 color photographs of figurines positioned to correspond to the eventsdescribedin the sentence stimuli. From theCambridge English Corpus In the next session, the investigator presented the color photographsdescribedpreviously. From theCambridge English Corpus Any given event may bedescribedby referring to various levels of description, such as the physical, chemical, biological, psychological, and sociological. From theCambridge English Corpus However, even in these models the relationship between stimulus and response representations is notdescribedin any detail. From theCambridge English Corpus When shedescribedbeing removed from a train by the police and pushed to the floor, one could sense the intensity of the personal insult. From theCambridge English Corpus After 40 min of incubation at room temperature, the supernatant surface film was removed and postfixed asdescribedabove. From theCambridge English Corpus But he is teaching something which is the object of study of linguistics, and isdescribedby linguistic methods. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition to the theoretical grammar testingdescribedabove, we also plan an informal evaluation of the usability of the system. From theCambridge English Corpus The image faithfully represents the thingsdescribedin the poem. From theCambridge English Corpus One can envision that during the thaw cycle the reverse of what wasdescribedabove will occur at some level. From theCambridge English Corpus But the structural differences between the two versions cannot bedescribedas 'correction'. From theCambridge English Corpus The developmentsdescribedhere were a part of structural changes driven by some general concept of a market economy. From theCambridge English Corpus One important advantage of the latent class modeling approachdescribedabove is that it leads straightforwardly to tests of gender differences in offending trajectories. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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