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Definition: DEPICTURE |
DEPICTURETransitive verb1. To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. |
Date "DEPICTURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Note: Depicture \De*pic"ture\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Depictured; present participle verb or noun Depicturing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Representation | Verb: represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness; Noun: hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe; trace, copy; mold. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DEPICTURE |
| English words defined with "DEPICTURE": Depictured, Depicturing. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "DEPICTURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përshkruaj (characterize, delineate, depict, describe, draw, escribe, image, paint, picture, portray, render), përfytyroj (conceive, dream, dream up, envision, fancy, figure, figure to oneself, give rein to one's imagination, image, imagine, picture, realize, visualize), imagjinoj (dream, fancy, give reins to one's imagination, image, imagine, realize, think up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | описвам (depict, describe, draw, list, narrate, picture, portray, record, report, represent to smb., write down), представям (deliver, deputize, exhibit, image, impersonate, introduce, offer, perform, present, project, put in, recommend, represent, show, stage, typify), изобразявам (depict, design, embody, feature, figure, image, limn, picture, represent, typify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epictureday descrever (account, characterize, depict, describe, design, narrate, portray, relate, report, represent, tell, write), retratar (delineate, depict, limner, paint, picture, portray, reflect, represent, retract), representar (act, act for, appear, depict, do, execute a project, make, performance, personate, personify, play, portray, represent, support, typify), pintar (brush, coat, color, colour, dapple, depict, dope fiend, fleck, limn, paint, picture, portrayal, represent). (various references) a-şi imagina (fancy, figure, get, imagine, picture to oneself, suppose). (various references) рисовать (depict, draw, drawn, drew, pencil), представлять себе (envisage, fancy, figure to oneself, imagine, realize, visualize). (various references) opisati (delineate, depict, describe, picture, write up), naslikati (depict, paint). (various references) skildra (depict, describe, narrate, recount), måla av (depict), föreställa sig (conceive, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, figure, figure to oneself, ideate, imagine, picture, see, visualize), beskriva (blazon, delineate, depict, describe, describing), avbilda (copy, depict, figure, map, paint, picture, reproduce, to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DEPICTURE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Deichtire. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "DEPICTURE" (pronounced 'De*pic"ture'): Acture, Admixture, Affixture, Anfracture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, Attainture, Aventure, Belecture, Cincture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Conjuncture, Connature, Constructure, Contexture, Contracture, Creature, Decocture, Defeature, Dejecture, Denature, Denture, Departure, Depasture, Deporture, Dictature, Digesture, Disadventure, Disaventure, Disfeature, Disjuncture, Disrupture, Distasture, Distincture, Disventure, Divesture, Ducture, Enacture, Encincture, Enrapture, Esture, Exhausture, Exploiture, Exposture, Facture, feature. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: decrepit, depicter, deuteric, pedicure, pictured, precited. | |
-2 letters: cuprite, epicure, eructed, erudite, erupted, eucrite, picture, pierced, predict, preedit, receipt, recited, reputed, tierced. | |
-3 letters: cerite, credit, creped, curite, deceit, deicer, depict, depute, dieter, direct, perdie, perdue, pieced, piecer, pierce, precut, priced, pureed, putrid, recept, recipe, recite, redipt, reduce, reedit, repute, retied, tierce, tiered, trepid, triced. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-p-r-t-u" | |
+2 letters: decrepitude, reduplicate. | |
+3 letters: computerised, computerized, decrepitudes, deuteranopic, precautioned, propaedeutic, reduplicated, reduplicates, reproductive. | |
+4 letters: counterpoised, disrespectful, propaedeutics, recapitulated, reduplicative, reproductives, superinfected, unappreciated, unpredictable. | |
+5 letters: counterpointed, hypereutectoid, productiveness, reproductively, superconfident, uncomputerized, unpredictables. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 50 49 43 54 55 52 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. .. -.-. - ..- .-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01010000 01001001 01000011 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E P I C T U R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0050 0049 0043 0054 0055 0052 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)383950433754555239 |
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