to characterize
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3.8
- verb
- /ˈkɛrɪktəˌraɪz/
:
caracterizar
- How would you characterize your friendship?
- best characterize
- often characterize
- characterize the environment
So one of the ways we characterize ourselves is as intelligent.
- So one of the ways we characterize ourselves is as intelligent.
- That's called decoupling, and it's characterized by a certain temperature.
- Isn't that an interesting way to characterize this faculty of will?
- But what's characterizing it now is really Marxism.
- And it's difficult to characterize some of these kinds of acts.
- How would you characterize Putin's demeanour with the way that he speaks?
- So what characterizes the ants is that they are very diverse.
- And that moment of recognition is characterized by grief.
- That's not the thing that people normally think characterizes us.
- OK, what characterizes the very structured scenes of the natural world?
Examples
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At the most basic level, a safe school could be characterized as one without physical violence.
Academic text (2011) -
Civilization is a way of life characterized by the growth of cities.
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Why do we want to characterize that process?
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Then there is what I would characterize as the Christian solution.
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Poor communication between agencies has characterized many headline cases in the past.
Academic text (2011) -
Almost everyone who had dealt with Kemble characterized him as a difficult, often angry man.
Fiction book (1993) -
A productive and inspiring middle school music room is characterized by an underlying, consistent layer of respect.
Academic text (2011) -
The knowledge of this 21st-century community is characterized by being an intangible asset that has no physical form.
Academic text (2011) -
However, neglect is often characterized by a cumulative pattern of harm over time.
Academic text (2011) -
The artist aims to characterize the beauty of nature in her paintings.
Synonyms
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1.0
To use words to show what a person or thing is like
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4.8
To write a full description of someone's life or work
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5.8
Show the common features of a group or type
How Precise
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word characterize comes from character, which goes back to the Greek charakter meaning 'stamp' or 'mark'. Imagine a stamp leaving a clear mark; to characterize something is to describe the marks or usual features that show what it is.