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| Main Entry: | depiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description, rendering |
| Synonyms: | delineation, drawing, illustration, image, likeness, outline, picture, portrayal, representation, sketch, portraiture, presentment |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
| Synonyms: | assuming, depiction, enactment, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, performance, portrayal, pretending, pretense, rendition, seeming, theatre, characterization, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, feigning, hamming, pantomime, play acting, playing, portraying, posing, posturing, putting, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | drawing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illustration |
| Synonyms: | cartoon, delineation, depiction, design, doodle, etching, graphics, layout, likeness, outline, painting, picture, portrayal, representation, sketch, study, work of art, commercial art, comp, storyboard, tracing |
| Main Entry: | likeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correspondence in appearance; something that corresponds |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, affinity, agreement, analogy, appearance, carbon, clone, comparison, conformity, copy, counterpart, dead ringer*, delineation, depiction, ditto*, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form, guise, identity, image, model, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrait, replica, representation, reproduction, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, study, uniformity, alikeness, analogousness, comparableness, identicalness, knock-off, lookalike, parallelism |
| Antonyms: | difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | portrait |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawn representation; description |
| Synonyms: | account, depiction, figure, image, likeness, model, painting, photograph, picture, portrayal, profile, silhouette, sketch, snapshot, spitting image*, vignette, characterization, portraiture, simulacrum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rendition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation; interpretation |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, construction, delivery, depiction, execution, interpretation, performance, portrayal, presentation, reading, translation, version, rendering, transcription |
| Antonyms: | obscurity, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | sketch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawing, outline |
| Synonyms: | account, blueprint, cartoon, chart, compendium, configuration, copy, delineation, depiction, description, design, diagram, digest, doodle, draft, figuration, figure, form, illustration, likeness, monograph, painting, picture, piece, plan, portrayal, précis, report, representation, rough, shape, skeleton, summary, survey, syllabus, version, vignette, adumbration, aperçu |
| Notes: | though both a sketch and skit are short entertaining presentations, a sketch is usually serious and unrehearsed, while a skit is typically rehearsed and comical |
| Main Entry: | representation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
| Synonyms: | copy, delegation, delineation, depiction, design, duplicate, enactment, exhibition, illustration, image, imitation, impersonation, impression, likeness, narration, personification, portrayal, reproduction, adumbration |
| Main Entry: | description |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | brief, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration, narrative, picture, portrayal, recital, recitation, record, rehearsal, report, representation, rundown, sketch, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, version, vignette, yarn, ABCs, blow by blow, characterization, explication, portraiture, presentment, recountal, summarization, writeup |
| Antonyms: | misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sketch, draft |
| Synonyms: | architecture, arrangement, blueprint, chart, composition, conception, constitution, construction, delineation, depiction, diagram, doodle, drawing, dummy, form, formation, idea, layout, makeup, map, method, model, outline, pattern, perspective, picture, plan, scheme, study, treatment, comp, paste-up, tracery, tracing |
| Main Entry: | enactment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | playacting |
| Synonyms: | achievement, acting, depiction, execution, impersonation, performance, personification, portrayal, representation, personation, playing |
| Main Entry: | picture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illustration, likeness of something |
| Synonyms: | account, art, blueprint, canvas, cartoon, copy, delineation, depiction, description, doodle, double, draft, drawing, duplicate, effigy, engraving, figure, icon, image, impression, outline, painting, panorama, photograph, piece, portrait, portrayal, print, replica, report, representation, similitude, sketch, spectacle, spitting image*, statue, tableau, twin, lookalike, photo, presentment, re-creation, ringer, simulacrum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | painting |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | work of art |
| Synonyms: | art, canvas, composition, depiction, landscape, likeness, picture, portrait, portrayal, representation, sketch, abstract design, art work, cityscape, mural, oil painting, seascape, water color |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artful conception |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, configuration, construction, depiction, device, doodle, drawing, figure, form, illustration, motif, motive, organization, painting, pattern, picture, portrait, shape, sketch, style |
| Main Entry: | illustration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drawing, artwork that assists explanation |
| Synonyms: | adornment, cartoon, decoration, depiction, design, engraving, etching, figure, image, line drawing, painting, photograph, picture, plate, sketch, snapshot, vignette, frontispiece, halftone, photo, tailpiece |
| Main Entry: | delineation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a description |
| Synonyms: | account, depiction, picture, rendition, representation, rough draft |
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