Depict

/dɪˈpɪkt/ · verb

Meaning

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means..

Definitions by Sense

1. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
2. (obsolete) Depicted.

Example Sentences

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.

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;

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

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

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

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

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;

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• depicts
• depicting
• depicted

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