depict

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō. === Pronunciation === (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /dɪˈpɪkt/, [dɪˈpɪkt] (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /dəˈpɪkt/, [dəˈpɪkt] Rhymes: -ɪkt Hyphenation: de‧pict === Verb === depict (third-person singular simple present depicts, present participle depicting, simple past and past participle depicted) To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. [from early 15th c.] Synonyms: portray, express, exhibit, register, show, describe, bespeak, visualise, draw, render, depicture 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. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === depict (not comparable) (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;