describer
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- noun
- /dɪˈskraɪbər/
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describidor
- As a skilled describer, she captured the essence of the bustling city in her writing.
I find him to be the most compelling, most talented and in his way, most polymathic describer of the way it used to be.
- I find him to be the most compelling, most talented and in his way, most polymathic describer of the way it used to be.
Examples
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What appears to be difficult at times, however, is for the teachers to separate their roles as teachers from their roles as objective observers and describers of language.
Academic text (1990) -
You've probably heard of Thorndike, inventor of various puzzle boxes and describer of instrumental learning.
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I find him to be the most compelling, most talented and in his way, most polymathic describer of the way it used to be.
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The publisher of the Encyclopedie was a describer, not a maker.
Fiction book (1992) -
Documented description of the environment, even at the Hesiodic level, tended already to separate what was described from the spoken speech of the describer.
Academic text (1991) -
It rendered the logos in which it was written an artifact, an object separate from the describer's own consciousness.
Academic text (1991) -
Here, however, the description implicates the describer, for Marlow himself receives the "new impressions" the tourists represent not very "intelligently" at all.
Academic text (2000) -
Such a recognition may have followed from the "separation of what was described from the spoken speech of the describer," and from "the logos in which it was written being an artifact, an object separate from the describer's own consciousness."
Academic text (1991) -
Such a recognition may have followed from the "separation of what was described from the spoken speech of the describer," and from "the logos in which it was written being an artifact, an object separate from the describer's own consciousness."
Academic text (1991) -
Are Vaughtie and Deborah sad old children, gabbing away out there, and alas, are we all just obsolete children, as said by another describer, another smart boy?
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
Something that shows people, places and events in pictures or words
How Explanatory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Describer comes from describe, which is made of de- meaning 'down' and scribere meaning 'to write', the same root as scribe and script. So a describer is someone who 'writes down' or tells what something is like, which is why they give descriptions.