depiction

de·pict

D0142200 (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.

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[Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpingere, dēpict- : dē-, de- + pingere, to picture; see peig- in Indo-European roots.]

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de·pic′tion n.

Thesaurus

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"characterisation, characterization, delineation, word picture, word-painting, picturedescription, verbal description - a statement that represents something in wordsepithet - descriptive word or phraseportrait, portraiture, portrayal - a word picture of a person's appearance and character
	2.	depiction - a representation by picture or portraituredepicting, portraying, portrayalrepresentational process - any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something elsemirror - a faithful depiction or reflection; "the best mirror is an old friend"
	3.	depiction - a drawing of the outlines of forms or objectslimning, line drawing, delineationanimalization - a depiction in the form of an animaldrawing - 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 etcdelineation, portrayalpictorial representation, picturing - visual representation as by photography or paintingportraiture - the activity of making portraits

depiction

noun1. 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

depiction

nounThe act or process of describing in lifelike imagery:delineation, description, expression, portrayal, representation.

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