Real Dictionary

describe
If something describes a particular shape, it forms that shape or makes a movement that follows the line of that shape.
verb: If a person describes someone or something as a particular thing, he or she believes that they are that thing and says so.
verb: If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.

describe in American English
to tell or write about; give a detailed account of
transitive verb: to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of

describe in British English
to give an account or representation of in words