- ascribe / describe
- Ascribe means "to attribute to": She ascribed her feelings of jealousy to insecurity.Describe means "to show what something is by drawing a picture with words": Describe in detail what the man looked like.
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ascribe / describe — Ascribe means to attribute to : She ascribed her feelings of jealousy to insecurity. Describe means to show what something is by drawing a picture with words : Describe in detail what the man looked like … Confused words
describe — [15] To describe something is literally to ‘write it down’. The word comes from Latin dēscrībere, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē ‘down’ and scrībere ‘write’ (source of English scribe, script, etc). English originally borrowed it via… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
describe — [15] To describe something is literally to ‘write it down’. The word comes from Latin dēscrībere, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē ‘down’ and scrībere ‘write’ (source of English scribe, script, etc). English originally borrowed it via… … Word origins
Scribe — (skr[imac]b), n. [L. scriba, fr. scribere to write; cf. Gr. ska rifos a splinter, pencil, style (for writing), E. scarify. Cf. {Ascribe}, {Describe}, {Script}, {Scrivener}, {Scrutoire}.] 1. One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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