describe, depict, draw (verb)

give a description of

"He drew an elaborate plan of attack"

report, describe, account (verb)

to give an account or representation of in words

"Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"

trace, draw, line, describe, delineate (verb)

make a mark or lines on a surface

"draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name (verb)

identify as in botany or biology, for example

describe (Verb)

To represent in words.

describe (Verb)

To give rise to a geometrical structure.

describe (Verb)

To scientifically reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.

describe

Description is the pattern of narrative development that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, or group. Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. In practice it would be difficult to write literature that drew on just one of the four basic modes.