Usually means: Expressing characteristics or details verbally.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. describing: Merriam-Webster
  2. describing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. describing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Describing, describing: Wordnik
  5. describing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. describing: Wiktionary
  7. Describing, describing: Dictionary.com
  8. describing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Describing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Describing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. describing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. describing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. describing: 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. describing: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. describing: 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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