Definition of "described" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of describe. (verb)

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• "Sometimes spelled “chowchow,” some linked its name to nineteenth-century Chinese railway workers, for whom the term described a condiment of orange peel and ginger in heavy syrup."
• "The man replied that the term described the company's growth strategy for 2006 - to fund all loans."
• "Accusing someone of "plagiarizing" off the Internet, at least under the circumstances herein described, is tantamount to accusing a writer of cheating by using reference books in a library."