Characterize vs Recount - What's the difference?
characterize | recount | Related terms |
to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative)
to determine the characteristics of
* {{quote-book, passage=This glossary includes terminology used in coastal science, engineering, geology, management, nearshore oceanography and the technologies that characterize , measure, describe or quantify the physical properties, processes and changes of the coastal zone.
, title=Department of Ecology Publication No. 98-105
, chapter=Glossary of Coastal Terminology
, author=Brian Voigt
, year=1998
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
To rehearse; to enumerate.
Characterize is a related term of recount.
As verbs the difference between characterize and recount
is that characterize is to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative) while recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of or recount can be to count or reckon again.As a noun recount is
retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes.characterize
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(Characterization)Alternative forms
* characteriseVerb
(characteriz)citation
Derived terms
* characterizationExternal links
* *recount
English
Etymology 1
From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.Verb
(en verb)- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- to recount one's blessings