depict

present singular third person depicts · participle present depicting · participle past depicted · past depicted

1. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.First known use early 15th c.

   1994, E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption), False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.

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   And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work;

   1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Book 4, Chapter 12, p. 189

   The Spring, when all its beauties rise, I see depicted in your eyes

   1770, Thomas Chatterton, The Auction, a Poem: A Familiar Epistle to a Friend, London: George Kearsly

   At first, I believe, I answered her very incoherently, for I observed alarm beginning to depict itself upon her countenance.

   1851, George Borrow, chapter XXIV, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 212

   The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.

   1984, Lawrence Starr, “Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess”, in American Music, volume 2, number 2, page 27

   Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.

   1987, Niall O'Loughlin, “Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar”, in The Musical Times, volume 128, number 1734, page 443

   Synonyms: portray, express, exhibit, register, show, describe, bespeak, visualise

1. not comparableobsoleteDepicted.

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   Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177, I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal, Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun, The hed of thre ful solempne and roial, Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;