Verb

(en-verb)

To see.

To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.

* Shakespeare

Edmund, I think, is gone to descry / The strength o' the enemy.

* Milton

And now their way to earth they had descried .

* 1719 (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

When I had passed the vale where my bower stood

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To discover; to disclose; to reveal.

* Milton

His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.

Verb

(describ)

(label) To represent in words.

* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " 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.

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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)

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.

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

Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book.