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Entailed vs Described - What's the difference?

entailed | described |

As verbs the difference between entailed and described

is that entailed is (entail) while described is (describe).

entailed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (entail)
  • Anagrams

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    entail

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To imply or require.
  • This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
  • To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
  • * Allowing them to entail their estates. — .
  • * I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. — Shakespeare
  • (obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
  • * To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. — Shakespeare
  • (obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
  • * Entailed with curious antics. — .
  • Derived terms

    * entailment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is entailed. Hence:
  • An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
    The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  • * A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. — .
  • (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
  • * A work of rich entail. — .
  • References

    (Webster 1913)

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    described

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (describe)

  • 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