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DEPICT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they depict ... he / she / it depicts
Past simple: depicted
Past participle: depicted
-ing form: depicting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give a description of
Example:
He drew an elaborate plan of attack
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "depict" is one way to...):
exposit; expound; set forth (state)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depict"):
represent (describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality)
delineate (describe in vivid detail)
adumbrate; outline; sketch (describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
depiction; picture (a graphic or vivid verbal description)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Show in, or as in, a picture
Example:
the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "depict" is one way to...):
interpret; represent (create an image or likeness of)
Domain category:
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depict"):
illustrate (depict with an illustration)
map (depict as if on a map)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
depicting (a representation by picture or portraiture)
depiction (representation by drawing or painting etc)
depictive (depicted in a recognizable manner)
picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
picture (illustrations used to decorate or explain a text)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Make a portrait of
Example:
Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "depict" is one way to...):
interpret; represent (create an image or likeness of)
Domain category:
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
depicting; depiction (a representation by picture or portraiture)
depictive (depicted in a recognizable manner)
picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)
Context examples:
Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We moved off in silence, and continued to coast round the line of cliffs, which were as even and unbroken as some of those monstrous Antarctic ice-fields which I have seen depicted as stretching from horizon to horizon and towering high above the mast-heads of the exploring vessel.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That gentleman was depicted as an intelligent, dignified businessman who had no patience with his brother-in-law's socialistic views, and no patience with the brother-in-law, either, whom he was quoted as characterizing as a lazy good-for-nothing who wouldn't take a job when it was offered to him and who would go to jail yet.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Millions of mummified ibis birds have been found in Egyptian tombs and catacombs in Saqqara and Tuna el-Gebel, and Egyptologists have reported they were sacrificed to the god Thoth, who is often depicted with the head of an ibis, the way Horus is shown with the head of a falcon and Bast with the head of a cat.
(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)
In this system, the FIGO stage is represented by an Roman numeral, followed by the modified WHO score depicted as an Arabic numeral and separated by a colon (e.g., Stage II:4, Stage IV:9).
(FIGO Staging System and Modified World Health Organization [WHO] Prognostic Scoring System for Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms, NCI Thesaurus)
He looked at his clerk as though he failed to recognise him, and I could see by the astonishment depicted upon our conductor’s face that this was by no means the usual appearance of his employer.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Though harrowing to myself to mention, the alienation of Mr. Micawber (formerly so domesticated) from his wife and family, is the cause of my addressing my unhappy appeal to Mr. Traddles, and soliciting his best indulgence. Mr. T. can form no adequate idea of the change in Mr. Micawber's conduct, of his wildness, of his violence. It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect. Scarcely a day passes, I assure Mr. Traddles, on which some paroxysm does not take place. Mr. T. will not require me to depict my feelings, when I inform him that I have become accustomed to hear Mr. Micawber assert that he has sold himself to the D. Mystery and secrecy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence. The slightest provocation, even being asked if there is anything he would prefer for dinner, causes him to express a wish for a separation. Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy “lemon-stunners”—a local sweetmeat—he presented an oyster-knife at the twins!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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