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Definition of Depiction
1. Noun. A graphic or vivid verbal description. "The pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
Generic synonyms: Description, Verbal Description
Specialized synonyms: Epithet, Portrait, Portraiture, Portrayal
Derivative terms: Characterise, Delineate, Delineate, Depict, Depict
2. Noun. A representation by picture or portraiture.
Generic synonyms: Representational Process
Specialized synonyms: Mirror
Derivative terms: Depict, Depict, Depict, Portray, Portray, Portray
3. Noun. A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects.
Specialized synonyms: Animalization
Generic synonyms: Drawing
Derivative terms: Delineate, Delineate, Delineate
4. Noun. Representation by drawing or painting etc.
Generic synonyms: Pictorial Representation, Picturing
Specialized synonyms: Portraiture
Derivative terms: Delineate, Delineate, Delineate, Depict, Portray
Definition of Depiction
1. n. A painting or depicting; a representation.
Definition of Depiction
1. Noun. a lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual ¹
2. Noun. a drawing or painting ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Depiction
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depiction
Literary usage of Depiction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Graphical Methods by Carl Runge (1912)
"Depiction of One Plane on Another Plane,—Let us now consider two quantities x
and y each ... Let us call this a depiction of the uv plane on the xy plane. ..."
2. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Some general traits: use of the supernatural and depiction of villainy; motives
drawn from law; attitude to theological matters; portraiture of Highlanders. ..."
3. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson (2007)
"Cheadle's remarks indicate a problem relating to the filmic, and often fictionalized,
depiction of genocides generally. Whether in Rwanda in the 1990s, ..."
4. Ending the War Metaphor: The Changing Agenda for Unraveling the Host-Microbe by Forum on Microbial Threats, Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (2006)
"... punne auxotroph Selection for tetracycline resistance Selection for purine
prototrophy FIGURE 2-2 Schematic depiction of the first strategies to select ..."
5. Infinitesimal Analysis by William Benjamin Smith (1898)
"The geometric depiction of such a relation is in general a surface. We may, in
fact, assign any pair of arbitrary values to x and y, that is, we may choose ..."
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