different between depict vs photograph

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)

1. 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)

1. (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;

English

Etymology

photo- +? -graph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.t?.?????f/, [?f??.t???.??????f]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fo?.t?.???æf/, [?f??.??.????æf]

Noun

photograph (plural photographs)

1. A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• photograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)

1. (transitive) and (intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
   • 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing

     He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
   • 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands

     He is photographed on my mind.

3. (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.

Translations

Anagrams

• phagotroph