Usually means: Specifies characteristics or qualities precisely.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. describes: Merriam-Webster
  2. describes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. describes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Describes, describes: Wordnik
  5. describes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. describes: Wiktionary
  7. describes: Dictionary.com
  8. describes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. describes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. describes: Idioms

(Note: See describe as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (describe)

verb:  (transitive) To represent in words.
verb:  (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
verb:  (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
verb:  (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
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