What part of speech is characterize?

Characterize can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. characterize is a verb, present, 1st person singular of characterize (infinitive).
  • 2. characterize is a verb (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does characterize mean?

Definitions

Verb

characterize - be characteristic of; "What characterizes a Venetian painting?"
characterize - 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"

Examples of characterize

#   Sentence  
1. verb You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist.
2. verb "I find it troubling that a candidate for president in our country -- the world's oldest democracy -- would characterize the military takeover as "good news," Gore said.
3. verb To one of the head psychologists, the depression criteria didn't quite characterize this group of girls.
4. verb Is this kid autistic or does he have ADHD? His behavior is hard to characterize either way.
5. verb Drunken fights and more drunken sex characterize their excuse for a relationship.
6. verb If you had to characterize your wife in three words, which ones would you pick?
7. verb He often adopts the behaviors and speech patterns that characterize the advantaged.
8. verb One can easily characterize a majority of the energy and power subcommittee members as nincompoops — scientific illiterates who spread misinformation crafted by oil and coal companies in order to minimize the significance of global climate change.
9. verb An often bankrupt developer of real estate repeatedly claims that his companies are enormously successful, while two lawsuits characterize his so-called university as a fraudulent enterprise.
10. verb After a careful survey of Bennu to characterize the asteroid and locate the most promising sample sites, OSIRIS-REx will collect between 60 to 2,000 grams of surface material with its robotic arm and return the sample to Earth via a detachable capsule in 2023.
11. verb How would you characterize the economy right now?
12. verb How would you characterize your current relationship?
13. verb The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will also characterize the planet's climate and geology, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first planetary mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
14. verb My tendency is to characterize much of this universe as a very vast desert with rare biology. Meanwhile, my friend Bratislav "Brian" Tepsa opines that forms of biology are ubiquitous throughout this universe. I remain receptive.
15. verb The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
Sentence  
verb
You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist.
"I find it troubling that a candidate for president in our country -- the world's oldest democracy -- would characterize the military takeover as "good news," Gore said.
To one of the head psychologists, the depression criteria didn't quite characterize this group of girls.
Is this kid autistic or does he have ADHD? His behavior is hard to characterize either way.
Drunken fights and more drunken sex characterize their excuse for a relationship.
If you had to characterize your wife in three words, which ones would you pick?
He often adopts the behaviors and speech patterns that characterize the advantaged.
One can easily characterize a majority of the energy and power subcommittee members as nincompoops — scientific illiterates who spread misinformation crafted by oil and coal companies in order to minimize the significance of global climate change.
An often bankrupt developer of real estate repeatedly claims that his companies are enormously successful, while two lawsuits characterize his so-called university as a fraudulent enterprise.
After a careful survey of Bennu to characterize the asteroid and locate the most promising sample sites, OSIRIS-REx will collect between 60 to 2,000 grams of surface material with its robotic arm and return the sample to Earth via a detachable capsule in 2023.
How would you characterize the economy right now?
How would you characterize your current relationship?
The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will also characterize the planet's climate and geology, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first planetary mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
My tendency is to characterize much of this universe as a very vast desert with rare biology. Meanwhile, my friend Bratislav "Brian" Tepsa opines that forms of biology are ubiquitous throughout this universe. I remain receptive.
The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.

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