What is "describes"

Usage examples of "describes".

Papert rightly describes it, one group of modelers, those I describe as reductionist, argued that the proper approach for Al was to take the brain and to endeavour to simulate some of its known properties using computers.

Now, if a plant of this kind were converted into one that slept, one side of one of the several ellipses which each leaf daily describes, would have to be greatly increased in length in the evening, until the leaf stood vertically, when it would go on circumnutating about the same spot.

In the simplest cases a leaf describes a single large ellipse during the 24 h.

Chapter 3 therefore describes my own, subjective memories, and my formation as a neuroscientist.

Thus Plato describes Socrates as claiming that writing is inhuman, in that it pretends to establish outside the mind what in reality can only be in the mind.

Can I transfer a word which to most of us describes a uniquely human - even a uniquely personal -activity to a description of something going on in non-human animals, to whose minds I have no direct access and with whom communication is strictly limited?

We can translate these words into a mathematical formalism that describes real-world experiments with amazing accuracy.

But what Einstein meant is that general relativity describes gravity with such a deep inner elegance, with such simple yet powerful ideas, that he found it hard to imagine that nature could pass it by.

Certainly, there is no way to establish that any theory describes our world without subjecting its predictions to experimental verification.

Epistle to Lord Viscount Forbes, which describes perhaps more faithfully, as well as more powerfully, the political state of America, than any thing that has ever been written upon it.

The author describes what it might be like if the night on which the stars appear were coming.

He is gratified when what they eventually recall under hypnosis resembles what he describes in his papers.

Almost everyone finds this characterization recognizable, and many feel that it describes them perfectly.

But when the adjective comes immediately in front of the noun it describes, it must normally be assumed that it is used attributively and not predicatively.

Newport despatched the presents round by water a hundred miles, and the Captains, with fifty soldiers, went over land to Werowocomoco, where occurred the ridiculous ceremony of the coronation, which Smith describes with much humor.