characterise

IPA: kɛrʌktɝˈɪsi

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of characterize. [(transitive) To depict someone or something a particular way (often negative).]

Examples of "characterise" in Sentences

His numerous and amusing errors are such as characterise the fanaticism that would refute
What does characterise many African/Caribbean students is that they are mainly from working-class backgrounds.
Foreign Policy, Walter Russell Mead coined a phrase to characterise what he suggested was hampering President Obama's presidency: the Carter Syndrome.
‘Classified’: artists, like everyone else, enjoy messing around with the taxonomic systems of organisation that characterise post-Enlightenment knowledge.
Our study explores the nature of software quality in the context of climate modelling: How do we characterise and assess the quality of climate modelling software?
As a result of our analysis, we characterise common defect types found in climate model software and we identify the software quality factors that are relevant for climate scientists.
However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.”