different between recite vs depict

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French reciter, from Latin recitare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sa?t/

Verb

recite (third-person singular simple present recites, present participle reciting, simple past and past participle recited)

1. (transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
2. (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
3. (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.

Synonyms

• (repeat aloud): declaim, go through, spout
• (list or enumerate something): tabulate; see also Thesaurus:tick off

Related terms

• recit
• recitation

Translations

Anagrams

• cerite, receit, tierce, tiercé

Italian

Noun

recite f

1. plural of recita

Portuguese

Verb

recite

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of recitar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of recitar
3. third-person singular imperative of recitar

Spanish

Verb

recite

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of recitar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of recitar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of recitar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of recitar.

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;