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опи́сывать — meaning in English

opisyvat

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English meaning

  • circumscribe verb To draw a line around; to encircle.
  • define verb To state clearly what a word, phrase, or symbol means.
  • depict verb To show or represent something through a picture, description, or performance.
  • describe verb To put something into words, giving an account of what it is like.
  • outline noun The line or shape marking the edge of something.

Senses

опи́сывать is used for these senses in English:

  • circumscribe To draw a line around; to encircle.
  • circumscribe (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
  • define To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
  • define To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
  • depict To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. [from early 15th c.]
  • describe (transitive) To represent in words.
  • describe (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
  • escribe (transitive, geometry) To draw outside of; designating a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the extensions of the other two sides.

circumscribe — full definition

  1. verb To draw a line around; to encircle.
  2. verb To limit narrowly; to restrict.
  3. verb To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.

define — full definition

  1. verb To state clearly what a word, phrase, or symbol means.
  2. verb To describe the essential nature or limits of something clearly.

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