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(v)
(transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate.
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To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(transitive) To represent in words.
(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
(transitive) To make prominent; emphasize.
(transitive or intransitive, biology) To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
(transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
(transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
(n)
(computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
(transitive, sometimes with 'of') To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
(transitive) To show or illustrate by example.
(transitive) To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident
(figurative) To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
(intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
(transitive) To follow the trail of.
(transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
(ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
(transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
To describe or depict with words or gestures.
(transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
(transitive) To be typical of.
An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
(adj)
Relating to now, for the time being; current.
(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
(transitive) To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.
To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.
(archaic) The act or result of depicturing something or someone.
A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
(transitive) To remove paint from.
(transitive, rare) To represent in a picture or a motion picture; to depict.
A stall; a fold for cattle.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To depict again or anew.
(countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
(countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
(transitive) To possess, own.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
(transitive) To make pictorial; to illustrate with pictures.
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
The state or quality of being like or alike.
Alternative form of pictorialize. [(transitive) To make pictorial; to illustrate with pictures.]
A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show the function or operation of something, or to show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
Misspelling of portray. [To paint or draw the likeness of.]
(slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately.
(transitive) To embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.
The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.
(transitive) To create.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of picturize. [(transitive, rare) To represent in a picture or a motion picture; to depict.]
(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
The imagination.
To express using words, either written or spoken.
(ambitransitive) To describe or depict a place.
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
(law, third-person singular only) It seems; it appears that
Non-Oxford British spelling of visualize.
To form a mental representation of what something sounds like.
(intransitive) To use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.
(transitive) To regard something as ideal.
(obsolete) To describe.
(anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
To express using movements of the body.
To make something external or objective
(intransitive) To begin a journey or expedition.
(transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.
(transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward.
(transitive) To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
(traditionally postpositive, now frequently prepositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
To make specular or reflective.
(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
To verbally express, to articulate.
(transitive) To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.
(uncountable) Determination; will power.
A short written or spoken expression.
(transitive) To interpret, view, or portray something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
To convert into an object of the imagination; to fantasize about.
(transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
(transitive) To make concrete, substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example.
A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
Archaic form of render. [(ditransitive) To cause to become.]
(transitive) To be symbolic of; to represent.
(intransitive) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
(transitive) To refer to literally; to convey as objective meaning.
(transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
(transitive) To picture again or anew.
To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.