Word Meanings - DEPICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A painting or depicting; a representation.

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• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• PAINT
  pictum; cf. Gr. many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, 1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. 2. Fig.: To
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• DEPICTION
  A painting or depicting; a representation.
• DEPICT
  Depicted. Lydgate.
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• PAINTURE
  The art of painting. Chaucer. Dryden.
• PAINTERLY
  Like a painter's work. "A painterly glose of a visage." Sir P. Sidney.
• REPRESENTATION
  1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical
• PAINTLESS
  Not capable of being painted or described. "In paintless patience." Savage.
• PAINTY
  Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• UNPAINT
  To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.
• DEPAINT
  Painted. Chaucer.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• BEPAINT
  To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.
• IMPAINT
  To paint; to adorn with colors. "To impaint his cause." Shak.