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(v)
(transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate.
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To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
(transitive) To pretend to be (a different person); to assume the identity of, especially when there is an intent to deceive.
To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(n)
A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
A general description of some subject.
(transitive, intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
(intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
(figurative) To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
(transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
(transitive) To represent in words.
(transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
(transitive) To create.
(transitive) To follow the trail of.
(transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
(transitive) To show or illustrate by example.
(transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
(transitive) To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
(transitive) To make up; to compose; to form.
(transitive, law) To make (a bill) into law.
(intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.
(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
(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.
(transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
To describe or depict with words or gestures.
(transitive) To be typical of.
(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
(transitive) To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.
A phase.
(transitive) To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
(adj)
(not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
(countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
(transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.
(countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
Misspelling of portray. [To paint or draw the likeness of.]
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
The state or quality of being like or alike.
(archaic) The act or result of depicturing something or someone.
A stall; a fold for cattle.
(transitive) To remove paint from.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
(transitive, rare) To represent in a picture or a motion picture; to depict.
(countable) Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
(law, third-person singular only) It seems; it appears that
(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
(transitive) To depict again or anew.
(transitive) To embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.
(transitive) To regard something as ideal.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(transitive) To make pictorial; to illustrate with pictures.
(transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
The imagination.
Alternative form of pictorialize. [(transitive) To make pictorial; to illustrate with pictures.]
The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.
(slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately.
(ambitransitive) To describe or depict a place.
(transitive, graphical user interface) To minimize (a window) on a computer screen, replacing it with a representative icon.
(also draw upon) To appeal to, make a demand of, rely on; to utilize or make use of, as a source.
(transitive) To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.
To take care of children in the absence of their parents; to work as a babysitter for someone.
To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
Forming a figure.
(transitive) To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.
(countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
(obsolete, transitive, figurative) To paint; to decorate with colours.
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
(traditionally postpositive, now frequently prepositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
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.
(transitive) To picture again or anew.
(transitive) To paint more or better than; to surpass in painting.
(transitive) To limn or depict anew.
(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
(archaic, transitive) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.
(transitive) Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.
(transitive) To paint (something) on a person's skin.
To copy or imitate, especially a person.
To reflect; to represent and by resemblance provide insight into.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of picturize. [(transitive, rare) To represent in a picture or a motion picture; to depict.]
(transitive) To treat in a figurative manner.
(adv)
(archaic or dialectal, especially Northern England) Likely, probably, perhaps, haply.
(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.