English-Portuguese translations for describe

descreverAs cartas estão na mesa. Descrever a nossa missão é fácil. What we have to do is easily described. Passo a descrever alguns deles. I shall describe a few of them. O problema é simples de descrever. The problem is easy to describe.

To represent in words
To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out
To give rise to a geometrical structure
To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa
To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class

The feeling is difficult to describe, but not unpleasant
The geographer describes countries and cities
to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle
The function describes a very complex surface
The fungus was first described by a botanist

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