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" Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product."
Lewis Mumford

Meaning of "characterize" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CHARACTERIZE

ˈkærɪktəˌraɪz


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHARACTERIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Characterize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb characterize in English.

WHAT DOES CHARACTERIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of characterize in the English dictionary

The first definition of characterize in the dictionary is to be a characteristic of. Other definition of characterize is to distinguish or mark as a characteristic. Characterize is also to describe or portray the character of.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CHARACTERIZE

PRESENT

Present
I characterize
you characterize
he/she/it characterizes
we characterize
you characterize
they characterize
Present continuous
I am characterizing
you are characterizing
he/she/it is characterizing
we are characterizing
you are characterizing
they are characterizing
Present perfect
I have characterized
you have characterized
he/she/it has characterized
we have characterized
you have characterized
they have characterized
Present perfect continuous
I have been characterizing
you have been characterizing
he/she/it has been characterizing
we have been characterizing
you have been characterizing
they have been characterizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I characterized
you characterized
he/she/it characterized
we characterized
you characterized
they characterized
Past continuous
I was characterizing
you were characterizing
he/she/it was characterizing
we were characterizing
you were characterizing
they were characterizing
Past perfect
I had characterized
you had characterized
he/she/it had characterized
we had characterized
you had characterized
they had characterized
Past perfect continuous
I had been characterizing
you had been characterizing
he/she/it had been characterizing
we had been characterizing
you had been characterizing
they had been characterizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will characterize
you will characterize
he/she/it will characterize
we will characterize
you will characterize
they will characterize
Future continuous
I will be characterizing
you will be characterizing
he/she/it will be characterizing
we will be characterizing
you will be characterizing
they will be characterizing
Future perfect
I will have characterized
you will have characterized
he/she/it will have characterized
we will have characterized
you will have characterized
they will have characterized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been characterizing
you will have been characterizing
he/she/it will have been characterizing
we will have been characterizing
you will have been characterizing
they will have been characterizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would characterize
you would characterize
he/she/it would characterize
we would characterize
you would characterize
they would characterize
Conditional continuous
I would be characterizing
you would be characterizing
he/she/it would be characterizing
we would be characterizing
you would be characterizing
they would be characterizing
Conditional perfect
I would have characterize
you would have characterize
he/she/it would have characterize
we would have characterize
you would have characterize
they would have characterize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been characterizing
you would have been characterizing
he/she/it would have been characterizing
we would have been characterizing
you would have been characterizing
they would have been characterizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you characterize
we let´s characterize
you characterize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to characterize
Past participle
characterized
Present Participle
characterizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHARACTERIZE

catheterize · cauterize · characterise · computerize · demilitarize · factorise · factorize · militarise · militarize · mischaracterize · motorise · motorize · notarize · parameterize · pasteurize · posterize · rasterize · satirize · vectorize · winterize

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHARACTERIZE

character type · character witness · character-building · characterful · characteries · characterisable · characterisation · characterise · characteriser · characterism · characteristic · characteristic curve · characteristic function · characteristically · characterizable · characterization · characterizer · characterless · characterology · charactery

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHARACTERIZE

bacterize · bowdlerize · containerize · copolymerize · depolymerize · dimerize · euhemerize · grangerize · isomerize · mercerize · mesmerize · pauperize · polymerize · prize · pulverize · rubberize · slenderize · soberize · suberize · tenderize · weatherize

Synonyms and antonyms of characterize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CHARACTERIZE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «characterize» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «characterize» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF CHARACTERIZE

Find out the translation of characterize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of characterize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «characterize» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

以…为特征
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

caracterizar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

characterize
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

विशेषताएँ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تميز
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

характеризуют
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

caracterizar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

চিহ্নিত করা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

caractériser
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mencirikan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

charakterisieren
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

特徴づける
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

~을 특징으로 하다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Menehi ciri
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đặc trưng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

குணாதிசயம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

विशेषता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tanımlamak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

caratterizzare
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

scharakteryzować
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

характеризують
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

caracteriza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χαρακτηρίζουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kenmerk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

karakterisera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

karakter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of characterize

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHARACTERIZE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of characterize
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «characterize».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about characterize

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «CHARACTERIZE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word characterize.
1
Gray Davis
Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff.
2
Ted Dekker
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
3
Michael Eisner
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
4
Barney Frank
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
5
Carlo Goldoni
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
6
Coleman Hawkins
I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
7
Stephen Hunter
By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.
8
Stephen Lang
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.
9
John Liu
There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.
10
Lewis Mumford
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHARACTERIZE»

Discover the use of characterize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to characterize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice: Using Software Metrics ...
Metrics are paramount in every engineering discipline. This book demystifies the design metrics used to assess the size, quality and complexity of object-oriented software systems.
Michele Lanza, S. Ducasse, Radu Marinescu, 2007
2
Physical Methods to Characterize Pharmaceutical Proteins
This collection of state-of-the-art research describes the most frequently used techniques for structural analysis of proteins.
James N. Herron, Wim Jiskoot, Daan J.A. Crommelin, 2013
3
Using Poisson's Equation to Characterize Brain Tumor Shape
The shape characteristic curve is able to distinguish subtle differences in simple 2D and 3D phantoms as well as human brain anatomy.
Benjamin J. Sintay, 2008
4
Use of short-term and long-term leaching tests to ...
It is important to characterize the geochemical potential of the outer skin of mine- waste piles because the skin of a mine-waste pile is very geochemically reactive. This reactivity is due to contact with the atmosphere. In the case of these ...
5
Studies to Characterize Pharmacokinetic Profiles of ...
The second project described in this thesis to develop a sensitive GC/MS-based analytical method for tiletamine and zolazepam for subsequent use in determining their pharmacokinetics in pigs.
Atul Kumar, 2007
6
Evaluating Streamflow to Characterize Ecological Functions ...
Anadromous fish populations along the Pacific coast have been declining for decades, partly due to river regulation.
Maria Isabel Escobar Arias, 2007
7
Characterize Southwestern United States Pinon-juniper ...
Southwestern U.S. pinon pine and juniper woodlands are often represented as an expanding and even invasive vegetation type, a legacy of historic grazing and culpable in the degradation of western rangelands.
Brian Francis Jacobs, 2008
8
Development of a Solute Transport Model to Characterize the ...
Groundwater flow is under steady state conditions. Most groundwater and contaminant transport models simulate homogeneous conditions, as heterogeneity is difficult to model. In this study, due to lack of data to characterize heterogeneity, ...
Rashmi Mantha, 2006
9
Methods to Characterize Ricin for the Development of ...
Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Table 3. Sequence of oligonucleotides for the amplification of Ricin (Gene Accession Number X52908) Primer set 1 Forward Primer ...
10
AAV2/8 Mediated in Vivo Gene Knockdown to Characterize the ...
Anay Dilip Pradhan. Myelin associated Nogo-A and growth inhibition Mechanism of axon growth inhibition by myelin associated Nogo-A An important advance in understanding the mechanism of action and cellular targets of any ligand is ...
Anay Dilip Pradhan, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHARACTERIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term characterize is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Puerto Rico's debt crisis: Hillary Clinton has a plan
... who've addressed the issue — always skeptically — have tended to characterize this as a proposal for a federal bailout of Puerto Rico. «Vox, Jul 15»
2
Big data meets mechanism
Inflammatory disease research is burgeoning. Large data sets are being generated to characterize the human immune response, while ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
China Stock Crash Could be a Long Term Opportunity
... all rapidly growing economies must eventually undergo – amplified in this case to the extremes that have come to characterize China's rise. «Money Morning, Jul 15»
4
May the Lord Smile...: Killer7 Turns 10
... of a group or get to know a single character, Killer7 made you one person with seven personalities and never bothered to characterize them. «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
5
California students resist authorities' attempt to conflate criticism of …
In 2013, UC students circulated a petitioncalling on the university president to condemn what they characterize as Rossman-Benjamin's “racist ... «Mondoweiss, Jul 15»
6
Mediterranean migration: Frequently Asked Questions
Although some European politicians seek to characterize those coming across the Mediterranean as 'economic migrants in search of a better ... «Médecins Sans Frontières International, Jul 15»
7
Decoding the brain: Scientists redefine and measure single-neuron …
... single neurons – and by generalizing the standard SNR metric, they were able to explicitly characterize the acknowledged fact that individual ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
8
Our long, rumor-filled history of analyzing presidential candidates …
But on Monday, Rubio did characterize comments in the the Times story as "propaganda," a possibility the story itself acknowledged and ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
9
Neil deGrasse Tyson joins push for new planet-hunting space …
NASA's Webb Telescope is expected to be able to characterize the atmospheres of alien planets and perhaps even find some of its own. HDST. «Mashable, Jul 15»
10
+Bransfield's pastoral letter on the elderly
... the youth and young adults of the Church and should characterize their attitude toward older family members, parishioners, and neighbors. «National Catholic Reporter, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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