prepositions - Is it described in or described on? - English . . . When used alongside the word 'described', the preposition 'in' would be the equivalent of either 'via' or 'inside' So, in the example you've given, the correct answer is 'in', because the methodology is described via (i e through the means of) the table figure An example of its equivalence with 'inside' could come about if, say, a publication had run an article on the methodology, in which
word choice - Describe with vs. describe by - English Language . . . I believe if something is described by something else, the thing in question is all there is for the description to have been made On the other hand, if something is described with something else, the thing in question is a part of the solution, which helps the overall description
What is a person if they are described as a wet hen? Maggie Thatcher described the only Conservative MP to join the SDP as 'as wet as a Dogger Bank trawler' Not a common insult, but the meaning is tolerably clear
adjectives - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of "Ned Ludd", a mythical weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials
Word to describe a person who has a lot of experience in a specific . . . In fact, when you hear someone described as a "big muckety-muck" (big shot) it is a mid-western U S interpretation of the Yiddish "macha" or "big macha" - which is what we say in NY Yiddish not only has a lot of great descriptive terms, but it's very onomatopoeic (?), so it easily becomes part of the lexicon