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(kăr'ək-tə-rīz') pronunciation
tr.v., -ized, -iz·ing, -iz·es.
  1. To describe the qualities or peculiarities of: characterized the warden as ruthless.
  2. To be a distinctive trait or mark of; distinguish: the rash and high fever that characterize this disease; a region that is characterized by its dikes and canals.
characterizer char'ac·ter·iz'er n.

Roget's Thesaurus:

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verb

  1. To describe with a word or term: call, designate, label, name, style, tag, term. See specific/general, words.
  2. To make noticeable or different: differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, individualize, mark, set apart, signalize, singularize. See same/different/compare.

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Characterize

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - karakterisere

Nederlands (Dutch)
karakteriseren, kenmerken

Français (French)
v. tr. - (Littérat) dépeindre, caractériser, se caractériser par, représenter, faire le portrait de

Deutsch (German)
v. - charakterisieren, kennzeichnen, prägen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - χαρακτηρίζω

Italiano (Italian)
caratterizzare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - caracterizar

Русский (Russian)
характеризовать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - caracterizar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - karakterisera, känneteckna

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
表示...的特色, 赋予特色

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 表示...的特色, 賦予特色

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 특성을 나타내다, 특색을 이루다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 特徴づける, 特徴を述べる, みなす

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) وصف, صور, ميز, عرف‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮אפיין‬


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