depict

CEFRB2

/dɪˈpɪkt/

verb

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01
verb
To show or describe someone or something in a picture or story.
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verb
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To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

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

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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

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From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.