| Main Entry: | representation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
Synonyms: |
adumbration, copy, delegation, delineation, depiction, design, duplicate, enactment, exhibition, illustration, image, imitation, impersonation, impression, likeness, narration, personification, portrayal, reproduction |
| Main Entry: | representation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness |
Synonyms: |
account, chart, delegation, diagram, effigy, embodiment, graph, icon, illustration, image, map, model, picture, portrayal, protest, sample, sketch, statement, symbol |
| Concept: | Representation. |
| Category: | 1. Natural Means |
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-nouns
representation, representment; imitation; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting; sculpture; engraving; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy., personation, personification; impersonation; drama., picture., copy; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme., image, likeness, icon, portrait , striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile., figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette., hieroglyphic, anaglyph; diagram, monogram., map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation; ichnography, cartography; atlas; outline, scheme; view (painting); radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph; spectrogram, heliogram.
-verbs
represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe; trace, copy; mold. dress up; illustrate, symbolize., paint; carve; engrave., personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act; play (drama); mimic (imitate); hold the mirror up to nature.
-adjectives
represent, representing, representative; illustrative; represented; imitative, figurative; iconic., like; graphic (descriptive); cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.
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Antonyms: |
misrepresentation |
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| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming into sight |
Synonyms: |
actualization, advent, appearing, arrival, coming, debut, display, emergence, entrance, exhibition, introduction, manifestation, materialization, presence, presentation, representation, rise, showing up, turning up, unveiling |
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absence, departure, disappearance, leaving |
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation meant to communicate or appeal to senses or mind |
Synonyms: |
abstraction, carving, description, design, illustration, imitation, modeling, molding, painting, pictorialization, portrayal, representation, sculpting, shaping, simulation, sketching, symbolization |
Antonyms: |
science |
| Main Entry: | behalf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest |
Synonyms: |
account, advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, cause, concern, countenance, defense, encouragement, favor, furtherance, good, help, part, place, profit, recommendation, representation, sake, service, side, stead, support, welfare |
| Main Entry: | cartoon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny drawing, often with dialogue or caption |
Synonyms: |
animation, caricature, comic strip, drawing, lampoon, parody, representation, satire, sketch, takeoff |
| Main Entry: | complaint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | statement of disagreement, discontent |
Synonyms: |
CC, accusation, annoyance, beef, cavil, charge, clamor, criticism, dissatisfaction, expostulation, fault-finding, grievance, gripe, grouse, grumble, guff, jeremiad, kick, lament, moan, objection, plaint, protest, protestation, rap, remonstrance, remonstration, representation, reproach, rumble*, squawk, stink, trouble, wail, whine |
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applause, approval, commendation, contentedness, happiness, praise, recommendation, sanction |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
Synonyms: |
apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
Antonyms: |
being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplicate, imitation |
Synonyms: |
Xerox, archetype, carbon, carbon copy, cast, clone, counterfeit, counterpart, ditto*, ectype, effigy, ersatz, facsimile, forgery, hard copy, image, impersonation, impression, imprint, likeness, microfiche, mimeograph, miniature, mirror, model, offprint, parallel, pattern, photocopy, photograph, photostat, portrait, print, reflection, replica, replication, representation, reprint, reproduction, rubbings, similarity, simulacrum, simulation, study, tracing, transcript, transcription, type |
Antonyms: |
original, origination, source |