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
- verb To draw a line around; to encircle.
- verb To limit narrowly; to restrict.
- verb To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
define — full definition
- verb To state clearly what a word, phrase, or symbol means.
- verb To describe the essential nature or limits of something clearly.