Describir in english
Describe
pronunciation: dɪskraɪb part of speech: verb
pronunciation: dɪskraɪb part of speech: verb
In gestures
describir = depict ; describe ; give + an account of ; give + a portrait of ; profile ; render ; portray ; characterise [characterize, -USA] ; paint + a picture ; chronicle ; give + a picture ; picture ; detail ; illustrate.
Example: Trial procedures aiming to increase service recognition and service usage, and the evaluation thereof, are then depicted.Example: Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work, and document with a central theme.Example: This article gives some background information on markup systems and gives a brief account of the Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML).Example: This article gives a portrait of Varde public library, due to take possession of a new main library in then central town square.Example: He was profiled in April 1972 as the Wilson Library Bulletin front-liner.Example: The eventuality is, admittedly, remote but it is also necessary to render the imprint statement in this amount of detail.Example: Hardy had a tragic vision of life and that indeed is what the novels portray.Example: As a consequence of the dualism of the research library and the public library different organisational schemes developed in the urban library system, which are characterised here in detail.Example: The data paint a picture of a fragmented discipline.Example: Their work has been chronicled by Boyd Rayward in a readable (but execrably printed) work.Example: The 1981 census data was used as a rough guide to give a picture of the area and to compile graphs from these statistics.Example: In most cases authors pictured incest as an assault against the innocent, but they often saw the abuser, especially the father, as a victim of himself and he is rarely punished with prison.Example: In May 1973 a paper was sent to all universities detailing the norms for university library accommodation, whereby the accommodation entitlements were further reduced to about one in five.Example: The presence of eggshells, faecal pellets, and silk threads in association with a mite-like animal illustrates a complex ecosystem.more:
» describir a grandes rasgos = paint + a broad picture ; paint + a broad-brush picture ; paint + Nombre + with a broad brush .
Example: Although there isn't room here to go into much detail, it may be worthwhile to paint a broad picture of how the migration actually went. Example: In this presentation, I wish to paint a broad-brush picture of this important area by drawing examples from our own work as well as from published literature. Example: But just as it's not fair to paint any race or socioeconomic class with a broad brush, labeling them this or that, it's not fair that all police officers are ridiculed because of the actions of a few.» describir claramente = paint + a clear picture .
Example: It's kind of like solving a puzzle -- you have all these oddly shaped pieces which can paint a clear picture if put together in the proper order.» describir como = paint + Nombre + as .
Example: Many commentators want to blame the Liberal Democrats for this, painting them as lily-livered social democrats with no real appetite for revolutionary change.» describir con claridad = paint + a clear picture .
Example: It's kind of like solving a puzzle -- you have all these oddly shaped pieces which can paint a clear picture if put together in the proper order.» describir con palabras = describe in + words .
Example: If his decision is to ask about his need, then it becomes necessary to give it a sharper intellectual shape, to describe it in words, and to formulate it as a question.» describir con todo lujo de detalles = describe in + graphic detail .
Example: He described in graphic detail what he witnessed during the explosion near the Boston Marathon finish line.» describir de forma general = outline .
Example: In many respects, principles and practices outlined in this chapter apply equally to AACR1 and AACR2 and the Concise AACR2.» describir el ascenso a la fama de = chart + the rise of .
Example: This article describes the current state of public Internet access, charts the rise of the cybercafe.» describir el desarrollo de = trace + the development of ; trace + the evolution of .
Example: It attempts to trace the development of the new rules, and to clarify their characteristics and problems by comparing them with the old rules. Example: The article 'The Wild Goose Chase' is a review essay on Umberto Eco's book, The Search for the Perfect Language, tracing the evolution of the search for a perfect universal language from biblical times through the present.» describir en líneas generales = outline .
Example: In many respects, principles and practices outlined in this chapter apply equally to AACR1 and AACR2 and the Concise AACR2.» describir erróneamente = mislabel .
Example: At least two publishers have themselves become so distressed at how their books are being mislabelled by LC subject cataloging through CIP that they're now printing their own homemade cataloging in publication data.» describir las características de = characterise [characterize, -USA] .
Example: Works from international publishing houses may be more difficult to characterise in this way.» describir una situación = depict + a situation .
Example: Sometimes they learn a new song this way or act out the dramatic situation depicted.» no haber palabras para describirlo = beggar + description ; defy + description .
Example: Barkly declared that the contention between coloureds and whites was so intense in some instances as to beggar description. Example: This is a work that often defies description, but I'll have a go anyway.» no hay palabras para describir = beyond words .
Example: The batsman were sledged beyond words, harassed and were pressured into making mistakes.» no hay palabras para describirlo = beyond (all) description .
Example: So we stopped in a pleasant place enough by the edge of a pond, and lighted a fire to drive off the mosquitoes, which plagued us beyond all description.» ser muy difícil de describir = defy + description ; beggar + description .
Example: This is a work that often defies description, but I'll have a go anyway. Example: Barkly declared that the contention between coloureds and whites was so intense in some instances as to beggar description.