DESCRIBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does described mean? 

• DESCRIBED (adjective)
  The adjective DESCRIBED has 1 sense:

1. represented in words especially with sharpness and detail

  Familiarity information: DESCRIBED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESCRIBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represented in words especially with sharpness and detail

Context example:

the vividly described wars

Similar:

delineate; delineated; represented (represented accurately or precisely)

 Context examples 

Rapidly I described to him my adventures, and he heard me out in silence.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I found him as my aunt had described him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Buck described a complete circle in the air, and half of another, then crashed to the ground on his head and chest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

About 4% of spontaneous peripheral nerve tumors, with cystic schwannomas being the most frequent type. 24 spontaneous and 28 ethylnitrosourea-induced tumors has been described by Turusov and Cabral, (1994).

(BDVI, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

He lifted into the air, described a short curve, and struck the deck alongside the corpse on his head and shoulders, where he lay and writhed about in agony.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You can understand that, living the life which I have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own age and position.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists have described many different spring-loading mechanisms in ants, but no one knew the relative speed of each of these mechanisms.

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Silent or hormonally non-functioning ACTH producing adenomas have also been described.

(ACTH-Producing Pituitary Gland Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

However, cases of metastatic angiomyolipomas with sarcomatoid features have been described.

(Angiomyolipoma, NCI Thesaurus)