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# characterize

«characterize» in Mova's school dictionary: **to show what it is like by its special features** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (characterize, characterizes, characterized, characterizing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To characterize something is to show what it is like by its special features. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/characterize/#m1)

2) To characterize is to be the mark that makes something what it is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/characterize/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the way a person or animal looks, speaks or acts shows what they are like; a fable is characterized by its rules

### examples

- The story is characterized by clever animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/characterize/#x1)
- His snub nose and fat back characterized him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/characterize/#x2)
- Many fables are characterized by strict rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/characterize/#x3)
- Her kindness characterizes the whole tale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/characterize/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «characterize» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/characterize/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.