depict
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English depict, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]depict (third-person singular simple present depicts, present participle depicting, simple past and past participle depicted)
- To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. [from early 15th c.]
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre[1], Cambridge, Book 4, Chapter 12, p. 189:
- 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;
- 1770, Thomas Chatterton, The Auction, a Poem: A Familiar Epistle to a Friend[2], London: George Kearsly:
- The Spring, when all its beauties rise,
I see depicted in your eyes
- 1851, George Borrow, chapter XXIV, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 212:
- At first, I believe, I answered her very incoherently, for I observed alarm beginning to depict itself upon her countenance.
- 1984, Lawrence Starr, “Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess”, in American Music, volume 2, number 2, page 27:
- The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.
- 1987, Niall O'Loughlin, “Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar”, in The Musical Times, volume 128, number 1734, page 443:
- Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.
- 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.
Usage notes
[edit]The subjects of the verb include words, music and images.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to render a representation of something — see also describe
Adjective
[edit]depict (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Depicted.
- 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,[3]
- 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;
- 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,[3]
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