Usually means: Specifies meaning of words, concepts.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. defines: Merriam-Webster
  2. defines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defines, defines: Wordnik
  5. defines: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defines: Wiktionary
  7. defines: Dictionary.com
  8. defines: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. defines: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defines: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (define)

verb:  To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
verb:  (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.)
verb:  To express the essential nature of something.
verb:  To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
verb:  To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
verb:  To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
verb:  (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
noun:  (programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
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