What is the meaning of describe?

Give a description of.
- usage: "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
- synonyms: depict, draw
To give an account or representation of in words.
- usage: "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"
- synonyms: report, account
Make a mark or lines on a surface.
- usage: "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
- synonyms: trace, draw, line, delineate
Identify as in botany or biology, for example.
- synonyms: identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, name

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