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depict
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?pictus, from d?pingere, from d?ping?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??p?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
depict (third-person singular simple present depicts, present participle depicting, simple past and past participle depicted)
- To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. [from early 15th c.]
- Synonyms: portray, express, exhibit, register, show, describe, visualise, draw, render, depicture
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Book 4, Chapter 12, p. 189,[1]
- And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work;
- 1770, Thomas Chatterton, The Auction, a Poem: A Familiar Epistle to a Friend, London: George Kearsly, p. ,[2]
- The Spring, when all its beauties rise,
- I see depicted in your eyes
- 1984, Lawrence Starr, "Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," American Music, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 27,
- The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.
- 1987, Niall O'Loughlin, "Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar," The Musical Times, vol. 128, no. 1734, p. 443,
- Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.
- 1994, E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),
- False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.
Usage notes
The subjects of the verb include words, music and images.
Related terms
- depiction
- depictive
Translations
Adjective
depict (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Depicted.
- Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177,[3]
- I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal,
- Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun,
- The hed of thre ful solempne and roial,
- Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;
- Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177,[3]
depict From the web:
- what depicted in the image above
- what depicts a chemical change
- what depicts xylem
- what depicted mean
- what depicts the feeding connections in an ecosystem
- what depicts reincarnation
- what depicts a striated object
- what depicts precipitation
feature
English
Etymology
From Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin fact?ra. Doublet of facture.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fi?t??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fit??/
- Rhymes: -i?t??(?)
Noun
feature (plural features)
- (obsolete) One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- An important or main item.
- (media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- (film) Ellipsis of feature film
- Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- (computing) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
- (archaeology) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- A feature of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other features at these sites may include small hearths.
- (engineering) Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- (statistics, machine learning) An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed.
- (music) The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- (linguistics) The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
- Hyponyms: gender, number, person, tense
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:characteristic
Derived terms
- featural
- feature article
Translations
Further reading
- feature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Verb
feature (third-person singular simple present features, present participle featuring, simple past and past participle featured)
- (transitive) To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
- (transitive) To star, to contain.
- (intransitive) To appear, to make an appearance.
- (transitive, dated) To have features resembling.
- Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)
- More than his talents, Roger grudged him his looks, the brown eyes, golden hair, and oval face, which made people say how Johnny Weir featured his mother.
- Sunday. Reading for the Young (page 219)
Translations
Middle English
Noun
feature
- Alternative form of feture
feature From the web:
- what feature is associated with a temperature inversion
- what feature occurs where plates converge
- what feature distinguishes this passage as a foreword
- what feature do platelets possess
- what characteristic is associated with a temperature inversion
- what are the causes of temperature inversion
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