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Describe vs Listing - What's the difference?

describe | listing |

As verbs the difference between describe and listing

is that describe is (label) to represent in words while listing is .

As an adjective listing is

asking, as a price of real estate.

As a noun listing is

the action of the verb to list.

describe

English

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.

    Synonyms

    * (to represent in words) portray, betell, depict, report * (to represent in writing) bewrite

    Related terms

    * describable * description * descriptive * descriptivism * descriptivist * descriptor * scribe

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    listing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • asking, as a price of real estate
    • What is this house's listing price?

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to list.
  • An entry in a list or directory.
    • Aardvaark Plumbing is the first listing in Yellow Pages.
  • (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
    • Print me a listing of the latest version.
  • A physical manifestation of a single item in a list; as a single twenty page (bound) listing .
    • Please pass me the second listing for the two story house, from that stack.

    Anagrams

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