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Definition: Represent |
RepresentVerb1. Take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin". 2. Express indirectly; be a symbol of; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?". 3. Be representative or typical for; "This period is represented by Beethoven". 4. Be a delegate for; represent somebody's interest, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute; "I represent the silent majority". 5. Serve as a means of expressing something; "The flower represents a young girl". 6. Be characteristic of: "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue". 7. Form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army". 8. Be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant". 9. Create an image or likeness of, in art. 10. : play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role". 11. : describe or present as an embodiment of a particular quality; "He represented this book as an example of the Russian 19th century novel". 12. : to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "represent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: RepresentSynonyms: act (v), be (v), comprise (v), constitute (v), correspond (v), defend (v), exemplify (v), interpret (v), make up (v), map (v), play (v), stand for (v), symbolise (v), symbolize (v), typify (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: prosecute (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commission | Be commissioned, be accredited; represent, stand for; stand in the stead of, stand in the place of, stand in the shoes of. |
Deputy | Verb: be deputy; Noun: stand for, appear for, hold a brief for, answer for; represent; stand in the shoes of, walk in the shoes of; stand in the stead of. |
Description | Verb: describe; set forth; (state); draw a picture, picture; portray; (represent); characterize, particularize; narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's battles over again. |
Imagination | Visualize, envision, conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen. |
Imitation | Mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; (drama); represent; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque. |
Indication | Represent, stand for; typify; (prefigure); symbolize. |
Information | Let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make known; publish; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of. |
Manifestation | Verb: make manifest, render manifest; Adjective: bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim; (publish). |
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. |
Adjective: represent, representing; Verb:, representative; illustrative; represented; Verb: imitative, figurative; iconic. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Represent |
| Etymologies containing "represent": Pragmatize. (references) |
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Screenplays | Just remember you represent the office of the mayor (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Now these coins represent the steps in your sprint (Chariots of Fire; writing credit: Colin Welland) The hands represent friendship, the crown represents loyalty and the heart Well, you know Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles -- when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) You represent the United States Government (Beavis and Butt-head Do America; writing credit: Mike Judge;) | |
Lyrics | Ya'll know I represent for the chicks (Get Away; performing artist: Jade) Represent your thang (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow) We represent the slums, where we from, we feel they bump (Po' Folks; performing artist: Nappy Roots) Didn't I represent you (No More; performing artist: Ruff Endz) | |
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Dysplastic nevus evolving into malignant melanoma. This 40-year-old female member of a melanoma-prone family had a cluster of moles located on her back (a), which were believed to represent dysplastic nevi and were photographed to facilitate subsequent follow-up. When reexamined 18 months later, the upper dysplastic nevus (arrow) had developed a new 3-mm black nodule (shown in this slide), which proved to be invasive malignant melanoma arising in a dysplastic nevus. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Multiple round bumps on cell surface represent sites of assembly and budding of virions. Credit: CDC. | ||
The trophozoites represent stages in the Plasmodium spp. life cycle, right after a blood or liver cell has been infected by a sporozoite. This image shows a erythrocyte having become a mature trophozoite. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Full view of the Earth, taken byGOES-8(Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) on 2 September 1994at 18:00 UT. The red and green channels represent visible data, while theblue channel represents inverted 11 micron infrared data.The north and south poles were were not actually observed by GOES-8. Toproduce this image, poles were taken from a GOES-7 image. Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | Center pivot irrigation systems created these circular patterns in crop land near Garden City, Kansas. The red circles indicate irrigated crops of healthy vegetation. The light-colored circles represent harvested crops.. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland's total coastline. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | Photo #1.Cross-section of first spine of dorsal fin of young bluefin tuna showing annual growth rings. These rings are similar to tree growth rings. The wide (brown) areas represent summer growth during periods of high food intake. The narrow (white) bands represent periods of less fast growth during the winter when the fish's metabolism slows. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | The Eastern Neck site prepared for planting. The poles represent planting treatment designations. The poles with flags indicate transects that were used for topography and vegetation surveys. In the distance, rocks were placed to reduce storm wave energy. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. The lines represent the ship's tracklines. Cover to "The Meteor Expedition." Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 61. Richard bottle (1940 model) devised by Dr. Jules Richard, Director of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco, and constructed by Charles Calleri, at that time the museum's instrument maker. This bottle did not represent a step forward, but instead was an example of using material's at hand to construct a sampling device during the difficult days of WW II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Eye art (detail)" by Stella Reese Commentary: "Detail of installation with glass balls representing eyes in Amsterdam. The eyes represent the 'eye of god' from islamic culture and protect people." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Chief Justice Earl Warren | Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. |
Henry James | The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. |
W. M. Hunt | The mission of art is to represent nature; not to imitate her. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Each Government will pay the remuneration of the member of the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal appointed by it and of any agent whom it may appoint to represent it before the Tribunal. (reference) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | In the absence of other effective measures, the following procedures to safeguard the Fifth Amendment privilege must be observed: the person in custody must, prior to interrogation, be clearly informed that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says will be used against him in court; he must be clearly informed that he has the right to consult with a lawyer and to have the lawyer with him during interrogation, and that, if he is indigent, a lawyer will be appointed to represent him. (reference) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It would be sad injustice, the reader must understand, to represent all my excellent old friends as in their dotage |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He was there to represent spectatordom, and help make this seemingly insignificant event one with the removal of the gods of Troy |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Chronic pain is widely believed to represent disease itself. (references) | |
Successful results would represent a big step toward eradicating shingles. (references) | ||
The measurement of a single fasting triglyceride may inadequately represent this lipid. (references) | ||
Business | Diesels now represent 55% of all new cars in Belgium. (references) | |
Voice over IP and call centers represent growing demand. (references) | ||
These factories represent about 20 percent of the market. (references) | ||
Children | Panama | Minors (under 18 years of age) represent 48 percent of the population. (references) |
Burkina Faso | Many children, especially girls, do not attend school; girls represent only 38 percent of school enrollment for the nation. (references) | |
South Africa | Between January 2000 and June, the police reported 31,780 cases of rape and attempted rape of children; however, observers believe that these figures represent a small percentage of the actual incidents of child rape, because most cases involve family members and are not reported. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Taiwan | Print media represent the full spectrum of views within society. (references) |
Slovak Republic | There were complaints that the media failed to represent minorities. (references) | |
Slovenia | The press is a vigorous institution although major media do not represent a broad range of political or ethnic interests. (references) | |
Economic History | Italy | Unions claim to represent 40% of the work force. (references) |
Germany | Those companies represent 41 percent of the total market. (references) | |
Morocco | Engineering services represent at least 40% of the market. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkmenistan | A person may represent himself in court. (references) |
Singapore | The detainee may represent himself or be represented by a lawyer. (references) | |
Jamaica | The Public Defender's Office contracts private attorneys to represent clients. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Botswana | The estimated 52,000 to 55,000 Basarwa persons represent approximately 3 percent of the country's total population. (references) |
Paraguay | The Constitution allows Public Ministry officials to represent indigenous people in matters involving the protection of life and property. (references) | |
Mexico | Indigenous people are located principally in the central and southern regions and represent a majority in the states of Oaxaca (53 percent) and Yucatan (52 percent). (references) | |
Minorities | Colombia | Although estimates vary, government figures indicate that Afro-Colombians represent approximately 26 percent of the total population. (references) |
Indonesia | Ethnic Chinese, who represent approximately 3 percent of the population--by far the largest nonindigenous minority group--historically have played a major role in the economy. (references) | |
Thailand | Muslims, who represent up to 10 percent of the country's population nationwide and constitute the majority in four of the five southernmost provinces that border Malaysia, experienced some discrimination. (references) | |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | All represent good opportunities for U.S. companies. (references) |
ITALY | The unions claim to represent between 35-40 percent of the work force. (references) | |
HAITI | Direct taxes on salary and wages represent only about 25 percent of receipts. (references) | |
Political Rights | Algeria | These two parties represent Amazigh political and cultural concerns in the Parliament and the media. (references) |
Romania | None of the 41 county prefects, an appointed position to represent the central Government at the county level, were women. (references) | |
Congo | Subnational government entities lack an independent revenue base and do not represent a significant check on central authority. (references) | |
Trade | Lebanon | Seven financing sources together represent three quarters of the total. (references) |
South Africa | These levels represent binding commitments and are not part of South Africa's phase-down program. (references) | |
India | For many American companies, ADB projects represent an attractive opportunity for business in Asia. (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | Electricity, water and gardens represent additional costs. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident represent your greatest health risk while staying in Abidjan. (references) | |
Honduras | Hondurans often view written contracts as formalities that represent a verbal agreement between trusted colleagues. (references) | |
Women | Belgium | The law allows social organizations to represent victims of domestic violence in court with the victim's consent. (references) |
Bahrain | Women of either branch may own and inherit property and may represent themselves in all public and legal matters. (references) | |
Mongolia | Women represent about half of the work force, and a significant number are the primary earners for their families. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Korea | The KWP purports to represent the interests of all labor. (references) |
New Zealand | Unions represent fewer than 20 percent of all wage earners. (references) | |
Oman | Legal counsel may represent plaintiffs and defendants in such cases. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word "sincere" is derived from sine cero, without wax, but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs, or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L.S., commonly appended to signatures of legal documents, mean locum sigillis, the place of the seal, although the seal is no longer used -- an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Costas | Right. But when Giamatti was the commissioner, there weren't steps required that would have in any way impacted the Red Sox, whereas this is not solely about the Yankees, but it's largely about the condition that the Yankees represent. |
Robert F. Kennedy | I was asked down there by a number of groups. I'm an attorney for the Natural Resource Defense Council and Water Keeper and I actually represent them in a series of environment lawsuits in, on Vieques. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This can be best met and averted by a just caution on the part of the public itself, and of those who represent them in Congress. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | I am, however, saved from discouragement when I remember that I shall have the support and the counsel and cooperation of wise and patriotic men who will stand at my side in Cabinet places or will represent the people in their legislative halls. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Under a free government the citizen makes his own laws, chooses his own administrators, which do represent him. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We can do this by fashioning a new partnership between the Congress on the one hand, the White House on the other, and the people we both represent. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In combination, they represent a significant strengthening of our nation's food and agricultural policy. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | But the terrorists represent the past, not the future. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Represent" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 54.78% of the time. "Represent" is used about 4,564 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) | 54.78% | 2,500 | 3,618 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 45.11% | 2,059 | 4,216 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.11% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,564 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "represent": represent again ♦ represent to be ♦ represent to oneself ♦ represent to smb.. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "represent": represent-ation. | |
Ending with "represent": over-represent, under-represent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "represent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | uitbeeld (depict). (various references) | |
Albanian | pasqyroj (express, image, mirror, reflect, render, throw back), paraqes (acquaint, bring in, bring up, delineate, demonstrate, denote, develop, display, feature, front, induct, introduce, introduce oneself, obtrude, offer, portray, prefer, present, press, produce, propound, put, put in, recommend, render, serve, show, stand for, submit), përfaqësoj (act, deputize, stand for), luaj rolë (render). (various references) | |
Arabic | مثل (act, adage, aphorism, appear, as, be a symbol for, be typical of, byword, case, depict, describe, example, exemplify, gnome, illustrate, illustration, instance, like, like this, maxim, perform, play, play act, portray, proverb, saying, sculpt, show, stand before, stand for, such, such as, symbolize, typify), ناب (canine, cuspid, fang, sub, substitute, tooth, tusk), نظم مسيرة إحتجاج, وضح (accentuate, clarify, clear up, define, elucidate, explain, illuminate, illustrate, light, lighten, puzzle out, ravel out, spell, state), صرح (avow, castle, certify, cut open, declare, edifice, outrival, palace, predicate, proclaim, profess, say, state, tower), إحتج (allege, complain, demur, deprecate, expostulate, grouse, nag, object, pick, protest, remonstrate, take exception to, yell), إستعرض (enter, inspect, look over, outline, parade, play act, set forth, show, tackle, touch on), أعلن (advertise, advertize, announce, avow, bill, blare, celebrate, count, declare, denote, enunciate, gazette, portend, predicate, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce, protest, publicize, publish, put out, report, rule, show, sound, state, usher, vote), شرح (account for, anatomize, be explained, caption, commentary, cut into slices, demonstrate, demonstration, dissect, elucidate, elucidation, explain, explanation, explication, exposition, expound, puzzle out, slice, sort out). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съответствувам на, символизирам (emblem, emblematize, personify, symbolize, type, typify), отговарям на (fulfil), означавам (amount, bespeak, betoken, connotate, denote, imply, import, indicate, intend, involve, mean, purport, signify, spell, typify), опитвам се да обясня, настоявам (aver, insist, persist, press, require, solicit), замествам (act for, deputize, preempt, substitute, supersede, supply), представям (deliver, depicture, deputize, exhibit, image, impersonate, introduce, offer, perform, present, project, put in, recommend, show, stage, typify), представител съм на, играя (act, dance, disport oneself, do, enact, lead, perform, play, present, run about, shoot, sport, support, twitch, wanton, waver), изтъквам (accent, accentuate, adduce, bring out, distinguish, emphasize, feature, highlight, notice, pinpoint, play up, point out, show off, show up, signalize, single out, throw up, urge), изобразявам (depict, depicture, design, embody, feature, figure, image, limn, picture, typify). (various references) | |
Chinese | 當 (adequate, at or in the very same..., during, equal, fitting, just at, manage, match equally, obstruct, on the spot, ought, proper, replace, right, same, should, suitable, to act as, to be, to pawn, when, withstand), 代表 (Behalf, Delegate, Epitomize, Epitomized, Epitomizing, rep, Re-present, representative, represented, Typified, typify, Typifying). (various references) | |
Czech | reprezentovat (constitute), zobrazovat (picture), zastupovat (deputize, substitute), zahrát (lead, strike, strike up), vylíèit (depict, describe, detail, limn, narrate, picture), tvrdit (allege, allow, argue, assert, aver, claim, predicate, submit, sustain, urge), symbolizovat (emblematize, epitomize, symbolize), představovat (constitute, personate, picture, spell), interpretovat (construe, interpret). (various references) | |
Danish | repraesentere deltagernes rettigheder (represent the rights of participants), store dis- eller stoevpartikler og smaa taage- eller skydraaber, der er elektrostatisk ladede, repraesenterer de ultrastore ioner og baerer i almindelighed adskillige elementarladninger, enten positive eller negative (and commonly carry several elementary charges either positive or negative, large haze or dust particles and fog or cloud droplets electrostatically charged represent the ultralarge ions), organisationer,som repraesenterer brede kredse af unge mennesker,der arbejder,er i laere eller er under uddannelse (organizations which represent wide circles of young people working, training or undergoing education), frembyde varerne for bestemmelsestoldstedet i uforandret stand (to represent the goods intact af the office of destination), forstyrrelserne af porphyrinstofskiftet optraeder tidligt,og udgoer derfor de bedste tegn ved diagnosen af en latent blyforgiftning (as the porphyrinic disturbances appear early, they represent the best indications for the diagnosis of latent lead poisoning), den manglende overensstemmelse mellem primaer-og sekundaer-struktur viser ogsaa,at de sojlekrystaller,der kan iagttages i blokke af legeret eller rustfrit staal,ikke altid er stoerkningssoejlekrystallerne (the non-coincidence of the primary and secondary structures also shows that the columnar grains visible in ingots of alloy steel or stainless steel do not always represent the as-solidified columnar zone), de moerke striber repreaesenterer sandsynligvis trin i nitridpladen (the dark streaks probably represent steps in the nitride platelet). (various references) | |
Dutch | verbeelden (depict), uitbeelden (depict), afbeelden (depict). (various references) | |
Esperanto | reprezenti, figuri (depict). (various references) | |
Faeroese | umboða (act for). (various references) | |
Farsi | فهماندن (Clear, Purporst, Show), نمایندگی کردن (Depute, Deputize), نمایاندن , نمایش دادن (Act, Display, Enact, Execute, Exhibit, Expose, Perform), وانمودکردن (Affect, Assume, Dissemble, Fake, Look, Pretend, Seem, Sham, Simulate), بیان کردن (Bubble, Express, Frame, Give, Impart, Say, Tell). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuvata (be characteristic of, depict, describe, film, photograph, portray), edustaa (stand for). (various references) | |
French | représenter (relieve). (various references) | |
Frisian | fertsjinwurdigje (act for), ôfbyldzje (depict, introduce, offer, present, tender). (various references) | |
German | vertreten (act for, act in place of, appear for, attend to, be the agent for, cover for, deputize, hold, justify, look after, maintain, plead, replace, sit in, stand in for, sub, sub for, support, to act for, to act in place of, to represent, understudy), vorstellen (act for, bring forward, envisage, imagine, introduce, mean, move forward, move on, offer, park in front, point out, present, put forward, put in front, put out, signify, tender, to envisage, to introduce, to represent, to suggest, unveil), darstellen (constitute, delineate, depict, describe, display, enact, impersonate, incarnate, introduce, offer, paint, personate, picture, play, play out, plot, portray, pose, present, produce, render, tender, to depict, to personate, to represent), repräsentieren (act for, perform official duties, represents). (various references) | |
Greek | αντιπροσωπεύω (act for, deputize, stand for). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליצג, לתאר (depict, describe, narrate, picture, portray, write up), להדגים (demonstrate, exemplify, illusory, illustrate, lead). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mutat (display, indicate, point, show, simulate, to denote, to indicate, to pretend, to record, to represent, to simulate), képvisel (act for, deputize, to deputize, to plead, to stand for), állít (affirm, allege, assert, aver, claim, contend, declare, posit, state, submit, to affirm, to allege, to assert, to asseverate, to aver, to claim, to contend, to corral, to line up, to parallel, to pillory, to predicate, to purport, to put in, to put up, to slant, to state, to submit, to suggest, to vow), ábrázol (depict, illustrate, image, limn, portray, to delineate, to depict, to illustrate, to limn, to picture, to plot, to portray, to represent, to typify, to write down). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mewakili (depute), memisalkan (be an example of). (various references) | |
Italian | rappresentare (act, act for, act in place of, be an agent for, depict, enact, feature, give, mean, perform, play, show, sit, stage, stand for, symbolise, symbolize), figurare (appear, depict, figure, imagine, make a good impression, picture). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 象る (to imitate, to make in the shape of, to model on, to pattern after, to represent, to symbolise), 記号で表す (to represent by signs), 形取る (to imitate, to make in the shape of, to model on, to pattern after, to represent, to symbolise), 形どる (to imitate, to make in the shape of, to model on, to pattern after, to represent, to symbolise), スピード線 (lines drawn to represent motion, pomeranian, spear, spear fishing, speed controller, speed lines, spin, spin out, spin turn, spin-glass, spinning reel, spirit, spirits, spiritual, spiritualism, Spirochaeta, Spirulina, spitball). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きごうであらわす (to represent by signs), かたどる (to imitate, to make in the shape of, to model on, to pattern after, to represent, to symbolise), スピードせん (lines drawn to represent motion, speed lines). (various references) | |
Korean | 대표하십시요 (Re-present). (various references) | |
Manx | soilshaghey (advertisement, characterize, declaration, demonstrate, describe, exhibit, explain, illuminate, illumination, illustrate, interpret, interpretation, irradiate, irradiation, light, lighten, manifest, manifestation, notify, publication, publish, show, show forth), soiaghey magh (bed out, disposition, furnish, profess, set forth), shassoo (attitude, erection, halt; keeping, hold, hold out, hold up, rampant, stance, stand, standing, stop, tumescence), cur seose (abdication, carry forward, disclaim, drop off, extradite, extradition, fit on, fix, flush, hang, increase, move, pitch, postulate, put up, relinquish, relinquishment, retire, set on fire, surrender), cowraghey (betoken, betray, betray exhibit, blotch, blotch of colour, characterization, characterize, denotation, denote, gesture, imply, log, mark, mark up, note, portend, sign, signify, stamp, symbolize), cloie (act, boil, bubble, charade, enact, event, extemporise, game, match, monkey, perform, performance, play, skylark, sport). (various references) | |
Papiamen | representá (act for). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epresentray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | representar (act, act for, appear, depict, depicture, do, execute, make, perform, personate, personify, play, portray, support, typify). (various references) | |
Romanian | reprezenta (body, depict, describe, give, imagine, make, picture, present, produce, reproduce, signify, sit for a borough, typify), sublinia (accent, accentuate, aver, emphasize, italicize, punctuate, score, stress, underline, underscore), simboliza (emblem, emblematize, figure, symbolize), scoate în evidenţã (set off, show off), prezenta (arise, bear, bring, carry forth, display, exhibit, expound, file, give, give in, have, hold forth, hold up, introduce, offer, paint, picture, present, produce, put forward, put in, recommend, reproduce, set forth, show, submit, tender), interpreta (act, construe, explain, expound, interpret, paraphrase, play, read, render, spell, take, translate), exprima (advance, breathe, conceive, connote, convey, couch, declare, express, formulate, have, indicate, look, phrase, put, show, signify, sound, speak, state, utter, voice), descrie (depict, describe, image, paint, picture, sketch, write), constitui (be, constitute, establish, form, frame), întruchipa (body forth, embody, incarnate, incorporate, materialize, objectify, personify, typify), înfãţişa (bring, depict, describe, feature, image, lay out, make, paint, portray, show), închipui (concoct, fabricate, imagine, scheme, shadow, symbolize). (various references) | |
Russian | представлять (adduce, conceive of, ideate, introduce, introduce to you, perform, present, rendered, stand for). (various references) | |
Scottish | riochdaich. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zastupati (plead, support), prikazati (cover, present, reproduce, review, section, show), predstavljati (correspond, impersonate, personate), oličavati (impersonate, personalize, personify). (various references) | |
Spanish | representar (act, act for, act out, body, depict, do, enact, give, look, make out, perform, play, portray, put on, put up, represent again, show, stage, stand for, typify). (various references) | |
Swedish | representera (entertain), framställa (arise, bring forward, depict, describe, do, draw, extract, make, manufacture, personate, pose, produce, put in hand, put out, show, turn out), föreställa (ideate, introduce, play the part of, present). (various references) | |
Turkish | vekili olmak, vekâlet etmek (act for smb., deputize, replace, stand in, stand in for, stand proxy), temsilciliğini yapmak, temsil etmek (body forth, exemplify, personify, speak for, stand for, symbolize), tarif etmek (be descriptive of, define, describe), sunmak (bring in, confer, dish, dish up, emcee, exhibit, furnish, go over, go through, help smb. to smth., hold forth, initiate, introduce, lay, Lodge, offer, pass in, pitch, prefer, present, proffer, put forward, put in, put to, put up, render, report, serve up, shew, submit, table, tender), simgelemek (be symbolic of, characterize, symbolize, typify), sahneye koymak (grandstand, play to the grandstand, present, stage), oynamak (act, budge, dance, enact, Frisk, hop, interpret, jig, juggle, mess smth. about, monkey, move, perform, place one's bet, play, play around, play at, play on, play upon, play with, playact, portray, shake a leg, toy, work), ifade etmek (amount, be enunciative of, breathe, conceive, connote, couch, denote, describe, emit, enounce, express, figure, frame, give voice to, import, mean, purport, reflect, sign, signify, state, utter, voice, word), göstermek (adduce, betoken, demonstrate, denote, depict, designate, disclose, display, evidence, exercise, exhibit, expose, hold up, indicate, initiate, introduce, look, manifest, point, point out, point to, produce, prove, put forth, register, run, set out, shew, show, show off, show up, signify, speak, stamp, table, teach, trot out, uncork), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken), betimlemek (delineate, depict, describe, picture), belirtmek (define, deliver oneself, denote, embody, emit, enumerate, evidence, exude, feature, import, indicate, manifest, point out, predicate, purport, remark, show, sign, signify, specify, state, ventilate). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відображати (express), малювати (depict, limn, pencil), зображати (character, characterize, delineate, depict, describe, feature, figure), представляти (deputize, subject). (various references) | |
Welsh | cynrychioli. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adumbrabat, assimulo, demonstra, demonstrabatur, demonstrabit, demonstrabitur, demonstrabo, demonstrare, demonstrasti, demonstrat, demonstratum, demonstratus, demonstravi, demonstravit, demonstres, reddo, tene, teneamus, teneant, teneat, teneatur, tenebam, tenebant, tenebantur, tenebas, tenebat, tenebatque, tenebatur, teneberis, tenebis, tenebit, tenebitur, tenebo, tenebunt, tenendam, tenens, tenensque, tenent, tenente, tenentem, tenentes, tenentium, tenentur, tenere, tenerem, tenerent, teneret, teneri, tenes, tenet, tenete, tenetis, tenetur, tenuerint, tenueris, tenuerit, tenuerunt, tenui, tenuisse, tenuisti, tenuit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "represent": representable, representation, representational, representationalism, representationalisms, representationalist, representationalists, representationally, representations, representative, representatively, representativeness, representativenesses, representatives, representativities, representativity, represented, representer, representers, representing, represents. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "represent": misrepresent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "represent": misrepresentation, misrepresentations, misrepresentative, misrepresented, misrepresenting, misrepresents, nonrepresentational, nonrepresentationalism, nonrepresentationalisms, nonrepresentative, nonrepresentatives, overrepresentation, overrepresentations, overrepresented, underrepresentation, underrepresentations, underrepresented, unrepresentative, unrepresentativeness, unrepresentativenesses, unrepresented. (additional references) | |
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"Represent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: proprement, repersent, repersetn, repesent, reprement, represe, represemt, represen, represente, Reprotsentr. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "represent" (pronounced re'pruze"nt) |
| 9 | r e' p r u z e" n t | misrepresent. |
| 6 | -r u z e" n t | resent. |
| 3 | -e" n t | accent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, Brent, cement, cent, circumvent, consent, Dement, Dent, descent, discontent, dissent, event, extent, ferment, gent, indent, intent, invent, Kent, lament, lent, malcontent, meant, misspent, nonevent, occident, outspent, overspent, pent, percent, prevent, reinvent, relent, rent, repent, scent, sent, spent, tent, underwent, unspent, vent, went. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: presenter, repenters. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: enterers, pesterer, preeners, preteens, pretense, reenters, repenter, terpenes, terreens, terrenes. | |
-2 letters: enterer, entrees, penster, preener, present, prester, preteen, reenter, renters, repents, retenes, serener, serpent, sneerer, steepen, steeper, steerer, sterner, teeners, terpene, terreen, terrene. | |
-3 letters: enters, entree, eterne, nester, pensee, perter, pester, peters, preens, preset, renest, renter, rentes, repent, reseen, resent, rester, retene, serene. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: enterprise, presenters, pretenders, preventers, represents. | |
+2 letters: enterpriser, enterprises, intersperse, preferments, represented, representer, supercenter, terrepleins. | |
+3 letters: enterprisers, intercepters, interpreters, interspersed, intersperses, misrepresent, peregrinates, progesterone, reinterprets, representers, representing, supercenters, teleprinters. | |
+4 letters: entrepreneurs, experimenters, interpleaders, misrepresents, penetrometers, peradventures, perseverating, perseveration, pervertedness, predetermines, preinterviews, prematureness, preponderates, pretreatments, progesterones, redemptioners, representable, unrepresented, weatherperson. | |
+5 letters: hypersecretion, interpermeates, misinterpreted, misrepresented, peremptoriness, perseverations, postretirement, predeterminers, preenrollments, preexperiments, prefigurements, preregistering, preretirements, representation, representative, weatherpersons. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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