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单词 characterize
释义
characterize
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v

To characterize someone is to describe them in a certain way, to try to pin down his or her personality. If you say your dad is stingy, you are characterizing him as a miser.
See the word character in characterize? Two meanings of character can help you understand this word. We all have character, meaning we all have unique personalities. Also, characters are people in books, movies, plays, and TV shows. Characterizing has to do with summing up how a person acts in real life or is portrayed in a work of fiction.
WORD FAMILY
characterize: characterization, characterized, characterizes, characterizing+/character: charactered, charactering, characterise, characteristic, characterize, characterless, characters/characterisation: characterisations/characterise: characterisation, characterised, characterises, characterising/characteristic: characteristically, characteristicly, characteristics, uncharacteristic/characterization: characterizations/uncharacteristic: uncharacteristically
USAGE EXAMPLES
Much like a local congregation, there is a sense of family that characterizes we “12s.”
Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017)
The advocate characterizes cognitive behavioral therapy as “an expert doing something to” a patient, whereas the movement’s approach disrupts that hierarchy.
The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017)
But remarkably high temperatures characterized August and September.
Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016)
1v be characteristic of
What characterizes a Venetian painting?
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
characterise
individuate
give individual character to
define
determine the nature of
differentiate, distinguish, mark
be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
2v describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist
This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
characterise, qualify
differentiate, distinguish, mark
be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
stamp
reveal clearly as having a certain character
characterise
be characteristic of
remember, think of
keep in mind for attention or consideration
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