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" It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was."
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Meaning of "depict" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEPICT

From Latin dēpingere, from pingere to paint.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DEPICT

dɪˈpɪkt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEPICT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Depict is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb depict in English.

WHAT DOES DEPICT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of depict in the English dictionary

The definition of depict in the dictionary is to represent by or as by drawing, sculpture, painting, etc; delineate; portray. Other definition of depict is to represent in words; describe.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEPICT

PRESENT

Present
I depict
you depict
he/she/it depicts
we depict
you depict
they depict
Present continuous
I am depicting
you are depicting
he/she/it is depicting
we are depicting
you are depicting
they are depicting
Present perfect
I have depicted
you have depicted
he/she/it has depicted
we have depicted
you have depicted
they have depicted
Present perfect continuous
I have been depicting
you have been depicting
he/she/it has been depicting
we have been depicting
you have been depicting
they have been depicting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I depicted
you depicted
he/she/it depicted
we depicted
you depicted
they depicted
Past continuous
I was depicting
you were depicting
he/she/it was depicting
we were depicting
you were depicting
they were depicting
Past perfect
I had depicted
you had depicted
he/she/it had depicted
we had depicted
you had depicted
they had depicted
Past perfect continuous
I had been depicting
you had been depicting
he/she/it had been depicting
we had been depicting
you had been depicting
they had been depicting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will depict
you will depict
he/she/it will depict
we will depict
you will depict
they will depict
Future continuous
I will be depicting
you will be depicting
he/she/it will be depicting
we will be depicting
you will be depicting
they will be depicting
Future perfect
I will have depicted
you will have depicted
he/she/it will have depicted
we will have depicted
you will have depicted
they will have depicted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been depicting
you will have been depicting
he/she/it will have been depicting
we will have been depicting
you will have been depicting
they will have been depicting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would depict
you would depict
he/she/it would depict
we would depict
you would depict
they would depict
Conditional continuous
I would be depicting
you would be depicting
he/she/it would be depicting
we would be depicting
you would be depicting
they would be depicting
Conditional perfect
I would have depict
you would have depict
he/she/it would have depict
we would have depict
you would have depict
they would have depict
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been depicting
you would have been depicting
he/she/it would have been depicting
we would have been depicting
you would have been depicting
they would have been depicting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you depict
we let´s depict
you depict
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to depict
Past participle
depicted
Present Participle
depicting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEPICT

addict · Benedict · conflict · contradict · convict · dict · district · faked · imperfect · inflict · object · perfect · Pict · predict · restrict · spiked · strict · subject · unpicked · verdict

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEPICT

deperm · depersonalisation · depersonalization · depersonalize · dephlegmate · dephlegmation · dephlegmator · dephlogisticate · dephosphorylate · depicter · depiction · depictive · depictor · depicture · depigmentation · depilate · depilation · depilator · depilatories · depilatory

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEPICT

afflict · class conflict · Congressional district · consolidated school district · constrict · delict · diamond district · drug addict · edict · eggs Benedict · evict · federal district · heroin addict · indict · Lake District · Peak District · red-light district · school district · sex addict · subdistrict

Synonyms and antonyms of depict in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEPICT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «depict» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «depict» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DEPICT

Find out the translation of depict to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of depict from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «depict» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

描绘
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

representar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

depict
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

दर्शाती
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تصوير
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

изображают
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

retratar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বর্ণা করা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

représenter
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Menggambarkan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

darstellen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

描写する
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

묘사하다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nggambar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mô tả
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சித்தரிக்க
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

चित्र रेखाटणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tasvir
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

rappresentare
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

zobrazowania
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

зображують
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

descrie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απεικονίζουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beeld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skildra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skildre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of depict

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEPICT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of depict
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «depict».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about depict

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «DEPICT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word depict.
1
Marcia Angell
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
2
Madhur Bhandarkar
In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
3
Buffalo Bill
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
4
David Brin
But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
5
Don Cheadle
The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.
6
Joel Coen
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
7
Carson Daly
The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.
8
Edward Dowden
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
9
Troy Dumais
Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.
10
Marlene Dumas
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEPICT»

Discover the use of depict in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to depict and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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What Matters: The World's Preeminent Photojournalists and ...
The World's Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of Our Time. $27.95 CAN $29.95 What Matters— an j audacious undertaking by best-selling editor and author David Elliot Cohen-challenges us to consider how  ...
‎2008
2
Pitching the presidency: how presidents depict the office
The work analyzes this specific rhetorical component longitudinally, examining a president's depiction of the office during the presidential campaign, throughout his term in office, and after leaving office.
Paul Haskell Zernicke, 1994
3
Using Language: The Structures of Speech Acts
(f(A') = 0) We must insure, for all transformations, that if an input has an unsatisfied existential presupposition, the output does not depict. This is not a problem for transformations which aren't radical. With a nonradical transformation , what is ...
John T. Kearns, 1984
4
Hegemony and History: A Critical Analysis of how High School ...
This study critically examines how the leading high school American history and world history textbooks depict the Vietnam War.
Christopher R. Leahey, 2007
5
Visual Order: The Nature and Development of Pictorial ...
But children do no such thing. Children depict form and space, not form and related space. Therein lies the difference. Children draw the form of objects as they perceive them and they represent them in space as individual objects. That is ...
N. H. Freeman, M. V. Cox, 1985
6
Bad Behavior: Stories
A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is ...
Mary Gaitskill, 2012
7
Drop Formation in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Liquid Jets
The dashed lines depict the uncertainty range for the theoretical calculations 130 6.4. Comparison of theory (solid line) with experiments (squares) for 0.1% XG solution at Re = 0.55, n = 0.55 and t = 8.62 ± 0.08 ms. The dashed lines depict the ...
Vineet Dravid, 2006
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
I founde a liknesse depict upon a walle, Annul in vertues, as I walkyd up and downe. Political Poems, etc. (eil. FurnivallX p. 28. His armes are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller, Worthies, Cambridgeshire. The cowards of Lacedemon ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A work of Universal ...
"depicten (only as a pp., depict), < OF. depicter, depict, < L. depic- tus. pp. of depingere, paint, depict : see depaint] 1. To portray; paint; form a likeness of in colors : as, to depict a lion on a shield. I founde a liknesse depict upon a walle, Armyd ...
10
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
If the mark has motion, the drawing may depict a single point in the movement, or the drawing may depict up to five freeze frames showing various points in the movement, whichever best depicts the commercial impression of the mark.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEPICT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term depict is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Archibald prize entries depict different shades of Jacqui Lambie
Impressions of Jacqui Lambie by two artists have been submitted to the prestigious Archibald prize competition, each portraying different ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Through fiction, vets depict clearer truth on US wars
Here's a summer reading suggestion you probably didn't see coming: Try some of the excellent recent fiction produced about America's wars in ... «Arizona Daily Star, Jul 15»
3
8 stunning 'Mockingjay, Part 2' character posters depict Katniss …
A slew of character posters for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 depict the lead characters of the series donning war paint ahead of their ... «Hypable, Jul 15»
4
Iowa museum to depict what vets experienced while in Vietnam
In this June 16, 2015 photo, Christopher Shackelford, research and programming assistant at the Grout Museum, shows off the new digital ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
5
Amateur artists depict Wincanton's secret corners in new exhibition
SIGHTS of the town depicted by Wincanton's up and coming artists have been hung on the walls as part of a one month exhibition. The artwork ... «Western Gazette, Jul 15»
6
Whippany Park students depict water pollutants
Whippany Park High School Science Environmental Education Klub (SEEK) members stand around the display they created at the Hanover ... «New Jersey Hills, Jul 15»
7
Women in trouble after photos depict them riding sea turtle
MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after photos of two women riding a sea turtle have emerged on social media. «Chron.com, Jul 15»
8
Depict richness of Telugu culture, artists told
Deputy Speaker Mandali Buddha Prasad on Saturday made a fervent appeal to artists in the State to use their painting skills to depict the ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Commemorative coins to depict John McCrae writing 'In Flanders …
OTTAWA -- The man who penned one of the most memorable poems in Canadian history is getting not one, but two commemorative coins. «CTV News, Jul 15»
10
LEGOS Depict Queen Mary
The Queen Mary is constructed in LEGOS by Bright Bricks, one of 12 certified LEGO Professionals that builds the toys into replicas of landmarks ... «Gazette Newspapers, Jul 15»
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