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verb as in describe, render in drawing or writing

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• characterize

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verb as in adorn

• description

verb as in duplicate

• counterfeit
• reduplicate

verb as in describe; outline

verb as in explain in speech, writing

• communicate
• convey image
• distinguish
• make apparent
• make sense of
• particularize

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It also depicts her friendship with Roxon, a fellow Australian living stateside and the writer of the groundbreaking Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia, which was published in 1969.

They also argue that a notorious photo apparently depicting a police officer patting a suspected assailant on the shoulder actually shows the officer “pushing” the suspect away.

Investigators had recorded phone calls and emails showing the couple worked with Singer to get their daughters into USC with fake athletic profiles depicting them as star rowers.

The scientists then drafted local artists to help illustrate the research they wanted to depict.

The low numbers do not depict the real situation, according to experts.

On the opposite end of the spectrum are two other standout works, which depict Mary as a loving, nurturing mother.

It is certainly not correct to exclusively depict her as an entirely innocent victim.

The resultant pop culture is as morbid and contagious as the epidemics they depict.

As a reward for her attempt to depict the consequences of online commenters, Gwyneth Paltrow has become their latest victim.

The show tried to depict consensual sex between Jaime and Cersei Lannister—but messed up big time.

She paled beside Valerie Marneffe, though, to be sure, Daudet knew better than to attempt to depict any such queen of vice.

All historians who have written of Champlain attribute to him the qualities which we have endeavoured to depict in these pages.

It has in all ages been a pastime of noble minds to try to depict a perfect state of society.

Reynolds loved to depict his sitters in mythological or historical settings.

Why should we linger on a scene which each heart can depict for itself?

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to depict, such as: characterize, detail, illustrate, interpret, paint, and portray.

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Synonyms for depict

• characterize

to present a lifelike image of

Show in, or as in, a picture, related words.

• artistic creation
• artistic production

give a description of

Make a portrait of.

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Depicts as a Verb

Definitions of "depicts" as a verb, synonyms of "depicts" as a verb (7 words), usage examples of "depicts" as a verb, associations of "depicts" (30 words).

The synonyms of “Depicts” are: describe, draw, picture, render, show, limn, portray

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English , “depicts” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Make a portrait of.
• Give a description of.
• Show in, or as in, a picture.

• This scene depicts country life.

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to represent by or as if by painting or other visual image; portray ; delineate .

to represent or characterize in words; describe .

Origin of depict

Synonym study for depict, other words for depict, other words from depict.

• de·pict·er, de·pic·tor, noun
• de·pic·tion, noun
• de·pic·tive, adjective

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How to use depict in a sentence

And just as the episode depicts, CIA would also find psychiatric help for him.

One depicts a procession of figures wearing both Mayan and Spanish garb, some holding what appear to be human hearts.

The play, set in 1982, depicts the struggles of three privileged slackers to come to terms with impending adulthood.

Goldhagen depicts it as being so deeply inculcated in the German psyche that it was almost as if they had no choice.

Coined “obscenity regulations,” on face value they appear to ban material that “depicts or describes sexual misconduct.”

The statue depicts him in his middle thirties when he was at the height of his exploration career.

In your work, say the first, there is a very happy phrase which depicts most naturally what you meant to say.

The one next below that is in yellow, and depicts the goddess who stood in the west of the House of Dew-Drops.

Figure 64 depicts a fair example of the highest style of perfection to which these articles reached.

At first he depicts exclusively, and in single words, its passive side.

British Dictionary definitions for depict

/ ( dɪˈpɪkt ) /

to represent by or as by drawing, sculpture, painting, etc; delineate; portray

to represent in words; describe

Derived forms of depict

• depicter or depictor , noun
• depiction , noun
• depictive , adjective

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Definition of depict verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

• depict somebody/something (as somebody/something) a painting depicting the Virgin and Child
• depict somebody/something doing something The artist had depicted her lying on a bed.
• The carving clearly depicts a dragon inside a circle.
• paintings depicting scenes from mythology
• The panels depict scenes from the life of St Ursula.
• graphically

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It Was Enough to Make You Wish You Lived in a Boxcar

Gertrude Chandler Warner’s “The Boxcar Children,” celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.

“Benny discovered his beloved ‘pink cup.’” This illustration appeared in color in the first edition of the original 1924 version of “The Boxcar Children.” Credit... Dorothy Lake Gregory

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It was the food. It was always about the food.

At first, bread, butter, wild blueberries. Later, dried beef and “precious little vegetables” like onions, carrots, potatoes and parsnips. Later still, ginger cookies with scalloped edges, doughnuts and something called cherry slump. This was a meal, Gertrude Chandler Warner writes, “that nobody ever forgot.”

It was enough to make you wish you lived in a boxcar.

Of course, in order to live in that boxcar you would have to have lost your parents (including a father who drank himself to death) and been on the run from “authorities” (in this case, concerned adults) who might want to separate you from your siblings or hand you over to your paternal grandfather — a man you heard was cruel.

All these things would have to have happened, which is part of the appeal of Warner’s “The Boxcar Children,” celebrating its 100th year (a milestone Penguin Random House will honor with a special anniversary edition in the fall).

Warner, a grade school teacher who as a little girl loved watching the trains go by from her home in Putnam, Conn., wrote 19 installments of the series, and ghostwriters wrote over a hundred more.

The original book tells the story of the orphaned Alden siblings (Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny), who strike out on their own and find refuge in an abandoned boxcar, which they gussy up with treasures (cups, hay beds, a pitcher with a small chip in its “nose”) from a nearby dump. I first read it in 1981 or 1982, when I was 8 or 9. I found a copy, with a worn cloth cover encased in plastic, at my local library; devoured it in two, maybe three sittings; and never forgot it. (The version the publisher sent me before I wrote this essay is the “simpler” one abridged by Warner in 1942 to make it more accessible to young children.)

It’s an unassuming yet captivating book, depicting a sort of fantasy world with no (or very few) adults, a secret hideaway and the delights of junior domesticity — playing “house” and concocting scrumptious meals. It’s like reading about a group of kids who’ve gone camping without counselors.

The Alden children aren’t presented as confronting acute or sustained food insecurity. Warner only briefly mentions her fictional charges suffering from pangs of hunger, and that’s just in the beginning. (The baby of the bunch, 5-year-old Benny, is the most anxious in terms of having enough to eat.) But food — along with cleaning (dishes, clothes, the interior of the boxcar, themselves) — is a constant theme: the procuring of it, the preparation of it, the eating of it, the squirreling away of it, the anticipation of it. And, in some cases (blueberries and cherries), the literal harvesting of it. (None of the Aldens’ food is stolen from others, unless you count a few eggs from the nest of a runaway chicken that they find while traipsing through the woods.) Henry even gets their adopted dog, Watch, his own bone.

Food figures prominently in other children’s books, of course — most notably the “Little House” books, but also “Harriet the Spy” and “All-of-a-Kind Family,” whose female protagonists, from very different milieus, generations and cultural backgrounds, encounter any number of goodies while on their adventures. Harriet, who likes tomato sandwiches, milk and cake, lives near an Italian grocery, a frequent stop on her spy route; the five girls of “All-of-a-Kind Family” spend the pennies and nickels they save on treats like candies, pickles and crackers.

But the food in “The Boxcar Children” is so central, so memorable. For the Alden children the days and hours are marked not by school lessons or play dates but by meals and the position of the sun.

Bread is “fragrant,” with “crusty ends.” Cheese in wax paper is “golden.” Early in the book, Jessie, a “little housekeeper” in line with the gender roles of the time, devises a makeshift refrigerator: a small pool of water in which she stores milk (“cold as ice”) and butter (“cool and sweet”).

A couple of weeks ago, a friend who has written extensively about children’s literature, Lizzie Skurnick, 51, was visiting my home in Los Angeles and spotted a copy of “The Boxcar Children” on my coffee table. “I loved that book — the food!” she exclaimed. When I spoke to her later, she elaborated on what she meant, saying she sees food in “The Boxcar Children,” and other children’s books in which it plays a starring role, as a signifier for building social relationships and bonds and asserting autonomy.

“Each time these kids are successful with food, it’s like they’ve recreated a little bit of the adult world in their outside world,” she explained.

“In the real world, most children have food handed to them. But in children’s books, harvesting and maintaining and fixing, or scavenging or buying, one’s own food is an act of independence. So figuring out that the butter needs to go in the stream is like solving a puzzle; it’s an act of adult invention. Whereas little kids would let their butter spoil, big kids can figure out how to make a house out of an old boxcar.”

A woman of an older generation, the retired English professor Barbara Traister, 80, read “The Boxcar Children” growing up. She, too, remembers the food. “It’s such an essential thing for kids,” she told me from her home in Philadelphia. “‘What are we going to eat today?’ ‘Mom, can I have a snack?’ Children’s writers — good ones — pick up on that. Think of Winnie the Pooh. He’s always worried about his honey, and Piglet is always looking for his acorns.”

By the end of “The Boxcar Children” — the first book, that is — Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny have been reunited (or, perhaps more accurately, united) with their grandfather, who turns out to be kind rather than cruel. They’ve made a new home in the wealthy man’s mansion, where each child has a room of his or her own in which to sleep and Jessie has a big kitchen in which to cook.

Yet the children miss their old boxcar.

Soon enough, to their pleasant surprise, their beloved former home has been secretly trucked in to live out its days on their grandfather’s sprawling property.

“Everything was in place,” Warner writes. “Here was Benny’s pink cup, and here was his bed. Here was the old knife which had cut butter and bread, and vegetables, and firewood, and string, and here were the letters for Benny’s primer. Here was the big kettle and the tablecloth. And hanging on a nearby tree was the old dinner bell. Benny rang the bell over and over again, and Watch rolled on the floor and barked himself hoarse.”

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Synonyms of essay

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Thesaurus Definition of essay  (Entry 2 of 2)

• have a go at
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How does the verb essay differ from other similar words?

Some common synonyms of essay are attempt , endeavor , strive , and try . While all these words mean "to make an effort to accomplish an end," essay implies difficulty but also suggests tentative trying or experimenting.

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While the synonyms attempt and essay are close in meaning, attempt stresses the initiation or beginning of an effort.

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Although the words endeavor and essay have much in common, endeavor heightens the implications of exertion and difficulty.

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While in some cases nearly identical to essay , strive implies great exertion against great difficulty and specifically suggests persistent effort.

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Try is often close to attempt but may stress effort or experiment made in the hope of testing or proving something.

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