Brigued vs Describe - What's the difference?
brigued | describe |
(brigue)
(obsolete) To achieve or obtain by underhand methods.
* 1704': we think it very unbecoming our prudence that the determination should be remitted to the authors themselves; when our adversaries, by '''briguing and caballing, have caused so niversal a defection from us, that the greater part of our society has already deserted to them — Jonathan Swift, ''A Tale of a Tub (Penguin 2004, p. 11)
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(label) To represent in words.
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(label) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
* 1826 , (James Fenimore Cooper), (The Last of the Mohicans)
To give rise to a geometrical structure.
To reveal a new species by scientifically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
(label) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
* Bible, (w) xviii. 9
As verbs the difference between brigued and describe
is that brigued is (brigue) while describe is (label) to represent in words.brigued
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(head)brigue
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(brigu)describe
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(describ)Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
- Uncas described an arc in the water with his own blade, and as the canoe passed swiftly on, Chingachgook recovered his paddle, and flourishing it on high, he gave the war-whoop of the Mohicans.
- Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book.