Synonyms of the word

describe

• v. (transitive) To represent in words.
• v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
• v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
• v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

account

• n. (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings…
• n. (banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
• n. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action…
• n. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
• n. (business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
• n. A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.
• n. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
• n. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
• n. An authorization to use a service.
• n. (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
• n. Profit; advantage.
• v. to provide explanation.
• v. to count.

delineate

• v. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
• v. To depict, represent with pictures.
• v. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
• v. To outline or mark out.

depict

• v. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
• adj. (obsolete) Depicted.

discover

• v. To find or learn something for the first time.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
• v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
• v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

distinguish

• v. To see someone or something as different from others.
• v. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
• v. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

exposit

• v. to expound.

expound

• v. (transitive) To lay open the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length; to clear of obscurity; to interpret.
• v. (intransitive) To make a statement, especially at length.

identify

• v. (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
• v. (transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
• v. (transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
• v. (reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
• v. (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
• v. (intransitive) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of…

inform

• v. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
• v. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
• v. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
• v. To act as an informer; denounce.
• v. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
• adj. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

key

• n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
• n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
• n. A crucial step or requirement.
• n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
• n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
• n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
• n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
• n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
• n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
• n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
• n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
• n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
• n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
• n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
• n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
• n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
• n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
• n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
• n. (masonry) A keystone.
• n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
• n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
• n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
• adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
• adj. Important, salient.
• v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
• v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
• v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
• v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
• v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
• v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
• v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
• v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
• v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
• v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• n. One of a string of small islands.
• n. Alternative form of quay.
• n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

name

• n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
• n. Reputation.
• n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
• n. A person (or legal person).
• n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
• n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
• n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
• v. (transitive) To give a name to.
• v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
• v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
• v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
• v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
• n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

report

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
• v. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information…
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
• v. (transitive) Formally to notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
• v. (intransitive) To be accountable.
• v. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter…
• v. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
• v. (obsolete) To refer.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
• n. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with…
• n. The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
• n. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.

trace

• n. An act of tracing.
• n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
• n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
• n. A very small amount.
• n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
• n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
• n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
• n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
• n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
• n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
• n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
• v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
• v. To follow the history of.
• v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
• v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
• v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…