Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To represent in a picture or sculpture.
- v. To represent in words; describe. See Synonyms at represent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To portray; paint; form a likeness of in colors: as, to depict a lion on a shield.
- To portray in words; describe: as, to depict the horrors of war.
- Synonyms To delineate, sketch, set forth.
- In mathematics, to represent; map.
Wiktionary
- v. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Depicted.
- v. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
- v. To represent in words; to describe vividly.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give a description of
- v. make a portrait of
- v. show in, or as in, a picture
Etymologies
- Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpingere, dēpict- : dē-, de- + pingere, to picture; see peig- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The world I'm trying to depict is strange, unfamiliar, beautiful, exciting - but above all, it's real.”
“No, what they depict is what was described and the children's interpretation that it was the Holy Father.”
“What these Twenty Poems of Love and One Ode of Desperation depict is the meeting between two people's desolation in the shadow of destruction, and in the next major work, Residence on Earth, he is still "alone among shifting matter".”
“To this system of procuring, under great risks and at almost any cost, faithful representations of the scenes we propose to depict, is due the greater part of the favour by which the Illustrated London News is received by the public.”
“Kanjo said Thursday some of the coins depict Alexander on one side and the Greek god Zeus on the other.”
“Roymans disclosed that both the gold and silver coins depict triple spirals on the obverse, a common Celtic symbol.”
“The gold and silver coins depict the king protea, South Africa's national flower.”
“The "Mandleve" coin depicts the tag-eared elephant's head and the other coins depict the head of their respective animals on their common obverse.”
“I went to the door, but would go no farther; but in the ten minutes I stood there, I heard him in graphic and forcible terms depict the misery of the drunkard and the awful consequences of his conduct, both as they affected himself and those connected with him.”
Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers
“In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the FDA's the new warning labels depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use.”
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GRE 2014
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT WORD DUMP - as ...
The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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Russian Doll Words
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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The Red Pyramid
SAS Gr. 7 EAL Book Read
amulet, relic, hieroglyphics, decipher, ominous, curator, boomerang, vague, agitated, obelisk, linger, hereditary and 37 more...
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writing first chapter
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
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1stDay
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
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cutting words
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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