depiction
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de·pict
(dĭ-pĭkt′)tr.v. de·pict·ed, de·pict·ing, de·picts
1. To represent in a picture or sculpture: Each page's border has designs that depict forest animals.
2. To represent in words; describe: stories that depict life on the frontier.
[Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpingere, dēpict- : dē-, de- + pingere, to picture; see peig- in Indo-European roots.]
de·pic′tion n.
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| Noun | 1. |  depiction - a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"description, verbal description - a statement that represents something in words epithet - descriptive word or phrase |
| 2. |  depiction - a representation by picture or portraiturerepresentational process - any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else mirror - a faithful depiction or reflection; "the best mirror is an old friend" | |
| 3. |  depiction - a drawing of the outlines of forms or objectsanimalization - a depiction in the form of an animal drawing - a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines; "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures" | |
| 4. | depiction - representation by drawing or painting etc pictorial representation, picturing - visual representation as by photography or painting portraiture - the activity of making portraits |
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depiction
noun
1. picture, drawing, image, outline, illustration, sketch, likeness, delineation The vase has a depiction of a man playing a lyre.
2. representation, description, portrait, illustration, sketch, portrayal the depiction of socialists as Utopian dreamers
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depiction
nounThe act or process of describing in lifelike imagery:
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
depiction
[dɪˈpɪkʃən] n (= portrayal) (in picture) → représentation f
(= representation) (in words) → description f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
depiction
n → Darstellung f; (in words also) → Beschreibung f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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