representation

Roget category 554

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.1. Natural means

#554. Representation

noun

representation, representment^† — imitation etc. 19 — illustration, delineation, depictment^† — imagery, portraiture, iconography — design, designing — art, fine arts — painting etc. 556 — sculpture etc. 557 — engraving etc. 558 — photography, cinematography — radiography, autoradiography [Bioch.], fluorography [Chem], sciagraphy^†.
personation, personification — impersonation — drama etc. 599.
picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot — X-ray photo — movie film, movie — tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit T

verb

copy etc. 21 — 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.
ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji [Jap.] — diagram, monogram.
map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan) 626.
ichnography^†, cartography — atlas — outline, scheme — view etc. (painting) 556 — radiograph, scotograph^†, sciagraph^† — spectrogram, heliogram^†.

verb

represent, delineate — depict, depicture^† — portray — take a likeness, catch a likeness etc. n. — hit off, photograph, daguerreotype — snapshot — figure, shadow forth, shadow out — adumbrate — body forth — describe etc. 594 — trace, copy — mold.
dress up — illustrate, symbolize.
paint etc. 556 — carve etc. 557 — engrave etc. 558.
personate, personify — impersonate — assume a character — pose as — act — play etc. (drama) 599 — mimic etc. (imitate) 19 — hold the mirror up to nature.

adjective

represent, representing etc. v., representative — illustrative [Slang] — represented etc. v. — imitative, figurative — iconic.
like etc. 17 — graphic etc. (descriptive) 594 — cinquecento quattrocento [Fr.], trecento^†.

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