* Languages describes the languages and ethnic groups found worldwide, grouped by host nation-state.

The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted to other hosts.

The Book of Pluscarden describes ' a detestable split and most unworthy difference arising from jealosy ' within the Scottish camp and the historian Michael Brown explains that a contemporary source has James appointing his young and inexperienced cousin Robert Stewart of Atholl as the constable of the host ahead of the experienced march wardens the earls of Douglas and Angus.

This suffix describes the service or name record type such as host record, master browser record, or domain controller record.

The word mezzanine, meaning a platform inserted between two floors of a building, describes the way in which a PMC card fits between two adjacent host cards in a standard card rack, attached to one of the cards by connectors and mounting pillars.

Medved describes the show as " Your Daily Dose of Debate ", often focused on listeners who call in to debate issues with the host.

Tolkien describes the army as the greatest to issue from that vale since the days of Isildur's might, no host so fell and strong in arms had yet assailed the fords of Anduin ; and yet it was but one and not the greatest of the hosts that Mordor now sent forth.

This URL describes a queue called " myqueue " on a printer with the host name " myprinter ".

Television host and actor Dudu Topaz describes Kol as his mentor and his spiritual father: “ He was the first to give me a chance as a TV host on the show Sachek Ota, which brought us winning the Kinor David prize.

Using conversation analysis, he describes how the host retains power through devices such as " The Second Position " — the concept of going second in a discussion, giving the host time to formulate a response.

* Phil Hartman – In a parody of The Twilight Zone, the host describes the viewers entering the " Caroline Zone " in " Caroline and the Letter.

On this show he describes shooting people who do not agree with him and who are not " morally correct ", the show's host describes this as " amateur eugenics ".

The specification describes a system memory structure for computer hardware vendors to exchange data between host system memory and attached storage devices.

Another format is to have a host who describes various characters and characteristics of the show to introduce various clips from past episodes.

Following a similar format as America's Funniest Home Videos and others, the program shows a series of home movies on video submitted by viewers featuring humorous and odd behavior by pets and animals that are voiced over by the host, who usually describes the action in the clips in a funny way.

" Cytowic describes how his host reported that " There aren't enough points on the chicken!

The specification describes a multiplexing service that may be accessed with a network protocol to contact any one of a number of available TCP services of a host on a single, well-known port number.

USB On-The-Go does not preclude using a USB hub, but it describes host / peripheral role swapping only for the case of a one-to-one connection where two OTG devices are directly connected.

In dividing the natural history of the disease, the Fortalez Classification formally describes the last part of the female flea ’ s life cycle where it burrows into its host ’ s skin, expels eggs, and dies.

He was a frequent host of " The LaRouche Connection " which its producer LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review News Service describes as " a news and information cable television program.

Biotic describes a living component of a community ; for example organisms, such as plants and animals.

Retzius also describes how farmers would plant chives between the rocks making up the borders of their flowerbeds, to keep the plants free from pests ( such as Japanese beetles ).

In both texts Hildegard describes the natural world around her, including the cosmos, animals, plants, stones, and minerals.

* Pedanius Dioscorides describes the medical applications of plants in De Materia Medica.

* c. 850 — Al-Dinawari is considered the founder of Arabic botany for his Book of Plants, in which he describes at least 637 plants and discussed plant evolution from its birth to its death, describing the phases of plant growth and the production of flowers and fruit.

* Some plants have bracts that subtend the inflorescence, where the flowers are on branched stalks ; the bracts are not connected to the stalks holding the flowers, but are adnate or attached to the main stem ( Adnate describes the fusing together of different unrelated parts.

William Feaver describes the Festival Style as " Braced legs, indoor plants, lily-of-the valley sprays of lightbulbs, aluminium lattices, Costswold-type walling with picture windows, flying staircases, blond wood, the thorn, the spike, the molecule.

Darwin describes how natural variations in individual plants and animals also support the selection of new traits.

New Zealand flax describes the common New Zealand perennial plants Phormium tenax and Phormium colensoi, known by the Māori names harakeke and wharariki respectively.

* Letter II: This letter describes the creatures, plants, and activities on and around the farm owned by James.

* Bine ( botany ), describes climbing plants that use stiff downward-facing hairs used for stability

In " Outdoor London ", published a year later in the short-lived Anglo-Saxon Review, Fowler describes the sights and sounds of his new home, praising its plants, its Cockney inhabitants, and its magical night scenes.

He considers the Earth, stone and sands, and describes different types of ground, indicating which types are more convenient for plants and the qualities and properties of good ground.

The Flora of the Queen Charlotte Islands describes plants known from the islands.

The term mucilage describes a group of clear, colorless, gelling agents derived from plants.

The Sushruta Samhita attributed to Sushruta in the 6th century BC describes 700 medicinal plants, 64 preparations from mineral sources, and 57 preparations based on animal sources.

Similarly, Irish uses two words for green: glas denotes the green color of plants, while uaithne describes artificial greens of dyes, paints etc.

A herbal may also classify the plants it describes, may give recipes for herbal extracts, tinctures, or potions, and sometimes include mineral and animal medicaments in addition to those obtained from plants.

In The Marvelous Land of Oz, the book states that everything in the land of the Gillikins is purple, including the plants and mud, and a character can see that he is leaving when the grass turns from purple to green, but it also describes pumpkins as orange and corn as green in that land.

Dioscorides ’ Materia Medica, c. 1334 copy in Arabic, describes medicinal features of various plants.

The text describes where the plants grow and how herbal medicines can be made from them.

The Rankine cycle most closely describes the process by which steam-operated heat engines most commonly found in power generation plants generate power.

Grazing generally describes a type of feeding, in which a herbivore feeds on plants ( such as grasses ), and also on other multicellular autotrophs ( such as algae ).