A person appointed or empowered to act for another, One deputed to represent a body of electors; one elected to the office of representative_ as, the deputies to the French Chamber of Deputies, a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

An abbreviation of derivation; derivative; of derived

Sports Any of various annual horseraces, especially for three-year-olds, A formal race usually having an open field of contestants, A stiff felt hat with a round crown and a narrow, curved brim

product of derivation, formed or developed from something else; not original, systematics Of, or pertaining to, conditions unique to the descendant species of a clade, and not found in earlier ancestral species, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of derive

Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards, (Astron) that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward, (Math) a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding one; also, a series arranged according to descending powers of a quantity, verb_ Present participle of descend

To give an account of in speech or writing, To represent pictorially; depict, To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out, in To use the faculty of describing; to give a description, verb_ make a mark or lines on a surface, identify as in botany or biology, for example, to give an account or representation of in words

Simple past tense and past participle of describe, adjective_ represented in words especially with sharpness and detail

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of describe

Present participle of describe

The act, process, or technique of describing, A statement or an account describing something, A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species