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Definitions: Depict |
DepictVerb1. Show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting". 2. Give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack". 3. Make a portrait of: "showing society what it looked like..portraying..its ugliness and its beauties..". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "depict" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Synonyms: DepictSynonyms: describe (v), draw (v), limn (v), picture (v), portray (v), render (v), show (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Painting | Verb: paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil; Noun: paint in oils; Noun: stencil; depict; (represent). |
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: Depict |
| English words defined with "depict": Depaint, Depicture ♦ illustrate, interpretative dance, interpretative dancing, interpretive dance, interpretive dancing ♦ map. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "depict": conflictzone ♦ econometric model ♦ isotype method ♦ MAKE-UP ARTIST ♦ PAINTER, ANIMATED CARTOONS, pictogram, picture diagram, PROP MAKER ♦ TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR ♦ video map ♦ WEAVE-DEFECT-CHARTING CLERK ♦ ZIP Code Tabulation Area. (references) |
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 | Shown is a DNA molecule. Computer graphic images are made by utilizing data fed into a computer. This data may consist of chemical elements and weights to specific colors that depict these weights and measures.Credit: Dr. Richard Feldmann (photographer). |  | Title to map published in Congressional Report depicting work of Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS in conducting deep sea soundings for a telegraphic cable survey. This map is very modern in appearance and was among the first to depict individual stand-alone seamounts.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Three-dimensional image of Monterey Canyon, termed a "gully" in this image. This image is the first attempt to depict a 3-dimensional view of a submarine canyon and incorporated soundings from the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Fish Commission. This highly simplistic view was constructed from relatively sparse soundings and does not capture the complexity of the canyon system.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Portion of map in Congressional Report depicting work of Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS in conducting deep sea soundings for a telegraphic cable survey. This map is very modern in appearance and was among the first to depict individual stand-alone seamounts.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Colored lithograph, after a drawing by Captain Melancthon B. Woolsey, USN, published by the Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co., 71 Broadway, New York, circa the later 1860s. It depicts the fast cruisers USS Ammonoosuc (1868-1883) and Neshaminy (1865-1874). The same print has also been used to depict the never-launched USS Connecticut, ex-Pompanoosuc. The original print's mount bears the notation: "From Boynton's History of the U.S. Navy".Credit: NAVY. | | Colored lithograph, after a drawing by Captain Melancthon B. Woolsey, USN, published by the Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co., 71 Broadway, New York, circa the later 1860s. It depicts the fast cruisers USS Ammonoosuc (1868-1883) and Neshaminy (1865-1874). The same print has also been used to depict the never-launched USS Connecticut, ex-Pompanoosuc. The original print's mount bears the notation: "From Boynton's History of the U.S. Navy".Credit: NAVY. |
 | 19th Century cyanotype photographic print of an oil painting by R.S. Floyd, depicting CSS Florida chasing a merchant sailing ship, after having set another prize afire (in the right distance). This may depict the events of 10 July 1864, when Florida took four prizes off the Eastern Shore of Maryland: the bark General Berry, which was captured first and burned; the bark (not a ship as shown here) Zelinda, captured second and burned later in the day; the schooner Howard, which was bonded and released with prisoners from previous captures; and the steamer Electric Spark, which was scuttled during the following night.Credit: NAVY. |  | Line engraving published in "Harpers Weekly", January-June 1863, page 164. This view may have been intended to depict (however inaccurately) CSS Savannah, which was launched at Savannah, Georgia, in February 1863.Credit: NAVY. |
| Colored lithograph, after a drawing by Captain Melancthon B. Woolsey, USN, published by the Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co., 71 Broadway, New York, circa the later 1860s. It depicts the fast cruisers USS Ammonoosuc (1868-1883) and Neshaminy (1865-1874). The same print has also been used to depict the never-launched USS Connecticut, ex-Pompanoosuc. The original print's mount bears the notation: "From Boynton's History of the U.S. Navy".Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Civil Liberties | Burma | State-controlled news media frequently depict junta members paying homage to Buddhist monks, making donations at pagodas throughout the country, officiating at ceremonies to open, improve, restore, or maintain pagodas, and organizing ostensibly voluntary "people's donations" of money, food, and uncompensated labor to build or refurbish Buddhist religious shrines throughout the country. (references) |
Economic History | Chad | The cliff paintings in Borkou and Ennedi depict elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, cattle, and camels; only camels survive there today. (references) |
Political Economy | Colombia | The AUC increasingly tried to depict itself as an autonomous organization with a political agenda, although in practice it remained a mercenary vigilante force, financed by criminal activities and sectors of society that are targeted by guerrillas. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Depict" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 60.68% of the time. "Depict" is used about 206 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 60.68% | 125 | 28,650 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 37.86% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.46% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 206 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
depict | 12 |
advertising consumer depict female in mass media n portray represent viewers wom | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "depict"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | uitbeeld (represent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vizatoj (construct, describe, design, draw, impaste), përshkruaj (characterize, delineate, depicture, describe, draw, escribe, image, paint, picture, portray, render). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مثل (act, adage, aphorism, appear, as, be a symbol for, be typical of, byword, case, describe, example, exemplify, gnome, illustrate, illustration, instance, like, like this, maxim, perform, play, play act, portray, proverb, represent, saying, sculpt, show, stand before, stand for, such, such as, symbolize, typify), وصف (adjective, attributive, capacity, characterization, characterize, demonstrate, demonstration, depiction, describe, description, dub, painting, picture, portray, term), صور (characterize, describe, film, paint, photo, pic, picture, portray, shoot, snap, take, typify), رسم (block, charge, daub, depiction, describe, description, design, draft, draught, draw, drawing, etch, etching, exhibit, figure to oneself, formalize, image, impost, lay, lay out, limn, line, mark out, pattern, pencil, picture, plotter, portray, portrayal, protract, scrawl, sketch, tableau, trace, trace over, weave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рисувам (design, draw, figure, image, limn, paint, picture, sketch), обрисувам (delineate, outline, picture, portray), описвам (depicture, describe, draw, list, narrate, picture, portray, record, report, represent to smb., write down), изобразявам (depicture, design, embody, feature, figure, image, limn, picture, represent, typify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 描述 (Delineation, Depicted, Depicting, Depiction, Describe, Described, Describing, Description), 描 (to copy, to touch up, to trace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zobrazit (display, portray, typify), vylíèit (describe, detail, limn, narrate, picture, represent), vykreslit, popsat (cover, cover with writing, delineate, describe, enter up, overwrite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verbeelden (represent), uitbeelden (represent), afbeelden (represent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | figuri (represent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مجسم کردن (Character, Embody, Epitomize, Figure, Image, Incarnate, Portray), نقش کردن (Engrave, Grave, Inscribe), رسم کردن (Draw), شرح دادن (Demonstrate, Describe, Detail, Explain, Give, Illustrate, Narrate, Relate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuvata (be characteristic of, describe, film, photograph, portray, represent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dépeindre (describe), décrire (delineate, demonstrate, describe, to describe), représenter (describe), peindre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ôfbyldzje (introduce, offer, present, represent, tender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schildern (delineate, describe, narrate, outline, paint, portray, signs, to delineate, to depict, unroll), darstellen (constitute, delineate, describe, display, enact, impersonate, incarnate, introduce, offer, paint, personate, picture, play, play out, plot, portray, pose, present, produce, render, represent, show, tender, to depict, to personate, to represent), abbilden (image, map, picture, portray, reflect, represent, reproduce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απεικονίζω (portray, typify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לתאר (describe, narrate, picture, portray, represent, write up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megrajzol (to design, to sketch, trace), megfest (to dye, to portray), lerajzol (to limn, touch off), lefest (image, picture, portray, to delineate, to depict, to limn, to picture, to portray), leír (amortise, amortize, describe, note down, portray, put down, to blazon, to delineate, to depict, to describe, to engross, to illustrate, to picture, to portray, to put down, to set down, to stick down, to transcribe, to write down, to write off, write down, write off), ecsetel, ábrázol (illustrate, image, limn, portray, represent, to delineate, to depict, to illustrate, to limn, to picture, to plot, to portray, to represent, to typify, to write down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menggambarkan (describe, reflect), membuat persamaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dipingere (color, colour, limn, paint, picture), ritrarre (divert, draw back, get out, picture, portray, portray oneself, represent, retract), rappresentare (act, act for, act in place of, be an agent for, enact, feature, give, mean, perform, play, represent, show, sit, stage, stand for, symbolise, symbolize), figurare (appear, figure, imagine, make a good impression, picture, represent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "く (to depict, to describe, to draw, to paint, to sketch), 描写 (delineate, delineation, depict vs, depiction, describe, description), 描く (to depict, to describe, to draw, to paint, to sketch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かく (angle, beautiful passage of literature, bishop, case, character, divide, each, every, kernel, nucleus, status, stroke, to break, to chip, to crack, to depict, to describe, to draw, to lack, to paint, to perspire, to scratch, to sketch, to write), えがく (to depict, to describe, to draw, to paint, to sketch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 묘사하십시" (Delineate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soilshaghey magh (advert, advertise, advertising, announce, announcer, burst forth, declare, denote, exposition, publicise, publish, publishing, reveal, revelation, set forth), peintal (paintwork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | skildre, avbilde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epictday representar (act, act for, appear, depicture, do, execute a project, make, performance, personate, personify, play, portray, represent, support, typify). (various references) descrie (describe, image, paint, picture, represent, sketch, write), zugrãvi (decorate, delineate, describe, paint, picture, portray, whitewash, write), reprezenta (body, describe, give, imagine, make, picture, present, produce, represent, reproduce, signify, sit for a borough, typify), picta (colour, describe, paint, paint in, pencil, picture, portray), oglindi (describe, mirror, reflect), înfãţişa (bring, describe, feature, image, lay out, make, paint, portray, represent, show). (various references) изображать (delineate, describe, figure, image, limn, pictured, portray, reflect, render, represent). (various references) opisati (delineate, depicture, describe, picture, write up), naslikati (depicture, paint). (various references) retratar (introduce, offer, portray, present, present with, put on the stage, represent, tender), reproducir (introduce, offer, play back, present, present with, put on the stage, render, represent, reproduce, tender), pintar (color, colour, decorate, lay on, oil, paint, painting, picture, portray, stain). (various references) skildra (depicture, describe, narrate, recount). (various references) tasvir etmek (delineate, describe, figure, portray), resmetmek (draw, figure, limn, paint, picture, picturize), göstermek (adduce, betoken, demonstrate, denote, designate, disclose, display, evidence, exercise, exhibit, expose, hold up, indicate, initiate, introduce, look, manifest, point, point out, point to, produce, prove, put forth, register, represent, run, set out, shew, show, show off, show up, signify, speak, stamp, table, teach, trot out, uncork), betimlemek (delineate, describe, picture, represent), çizmek (construct, cross out, describe, draw, groove, limn, line, mark up, picture, plough, plow, rule, scar, score, scratch, set, trace, write off). (various references) sypatlandyrmak (describe), suratlandyrmak (describe), юekillendirmek. (various references) описувати (blazon, describe), малювати (limn, pencil, represent), зображати (character, characterize, delineate, describe, feature, figure, represent), змальовувати (delineate, describe, paint). (various references) darlunio (describe, picture, portray), portreadu (portray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | depinxit, pictis, pictura, picturae, picturam, picturas, pingere, pinxeris. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "depict": depicted, depicter, depicters, depicting, depiction, depictions, depictor, depictors, depicts. (additional references) | |
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"Depict" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decipt, dedic, dedict, defict, Delich, depat, Depc, depcit, depi, depici, depick, depictd, depictg, depit, depitc, desic, devicto, Dewick, dipict, Dipinti, dopac, Dowitcz, epict, repitch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "depict" (pronounced dupi"kt) |
| 4 | -p i" k t | handpicked, picked. |
| 3 | -i" k t | addict, afflict, clicked, constrict, contradict, evict, inflict, kicked, Licht, licked, nicked, predict, pricked, restrict, slicked, strict, ticked, tricked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-p-t" | |
-1 letter: cited, edict, tepid. | |
-2 letters: cedi, cite, dice, diet, dipt, dite, edit, epic, etic, iced, pice, pied, tide, tied. | |
-3 letters: cep, die, dip, dit, ice, pec, ped, pet, pic, pie, pit, ted, tic, tie, tip. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, et, id, it, pe, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-p-t" | |
+1 letter: depicts, discept, picoted, pitched, predict. | |
+2 letters: copyedit, decrepit, depicted, depicter, depictor, despotic, discepts, epidotic, impacted, incepted, pectized, pedantic, peptidic, picketed, picrated, pictured, plicated, precited, predicts, scripted, spicated. | |
+3 letters: adipocyte, cadetship, captained, captioned, centipede, copyedits, cuspidate, deception, deceptive, depicters, depicting, depiction, depictors, discepted, duplicate, dyspeptic, inspected, nitpicked, outpriced, patricide, pediatric, peridotic, pesticide, poulticed, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, predicted, predictor, prenticed, receipted, speciated, stepchild. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 70 69 63 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. .. -.-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110000 01101001 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e p i c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0070 0069 0063 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387182756986 |
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