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Represent

verb

1.

Take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to. Synonyms: correspond, stand for.

2.

Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol. Synonyms: stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify.

3.

Be representative or typical for.

4.

Be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute.

5.

Serve as a means of expressing something.

6.

Be characteristic of. Synonym: exemplify.

7.

Form or compose. Synonyms: be, comprise, constitute, make up. "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance" , "These constitute my entire belonging" , "The children made up the chorus" , "This sum represents my entire income for a year" , "These few men comprise his entire army"

8.

Be the defense counsel for someone in a trial. Synonym: defend.

9.

Create an image or likeness of. Synonym: interpret.

10.

Play a role or part. Synonyms: act, play. "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role" , "She played the servant to her husband's master"

11.

Perform (a play), especially on a stage. Synonyms: present, stage.

12.

Describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality.

13.

Point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance.

14.

Bring forward and present to the mind. Synonyms: lay out, present. "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"

15.

To establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets). Synonym: map.

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"Represent" Quotes from Famous Books

... life; he had to see it manifesting itself in his own soul, and in the soul of Corydon, and even in the soul of the child. Worst of all to him, the artist, he had to see it working itself out in what he wrote—in book after book that went out to represent him to the world, and that did not represent him at all, but only represented the Snare in which he had been caught! It was one of the facts about this Snare, that there was no merciful Keeper to come and put the victim out of his misery with a blow upon the head; that he was ...

— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair

... wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and ...

— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce

... a mere coincidence, but it was strange that the words "going out" should correctly represent the idea that was in my mind during a great part of the preceding day. I had much worried, hesitating whether I should ...

— Telepathy - Genuine and Fraudulent • W. W. Baggally

... at the great auction which the censor held in the capital. It was certain that no foreign competition could prevail in this sale of a kingdom's revenues. The right to gather in the tithes could be purchased only by a powerful company of Roman capitalists. The Decumani of Asia would represent the heart and brain of the mercantile body; they would form a senate and a Principate amongst the Publicani.[639] They would flood the province with their local directors, their agents and their freedmen; and each ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge

... conquering this evil; he did not attempt to deny that there were obstacles to be overcome; he showed all the force of bad habit, all the danger of temptation—but if there were difficulties in the way, it was equally true that the power to subdue them was fully within the reach of every man. He went on to represent the happy effects of a change from evil to good; a restoration to usefulness, peace, comfort, and respectability, which has happily been seen in many an instance. He concluded by appealing to his hearers as men, to shake off a debasing slavery; as Christians, to flee from a heinous sin; and ...

— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

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