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Represent   /rˌɛprəzˈɛnt/  /rˌɛprɪzˈɛnt/   Listen
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



... unacquainted with the behaviour of Sir Clement after the opera, says it is not right for a young woman to be seen so frequently in public with the same gentleman; and, if our stay in town was to be lengthened, she would endeavour to represent to the Captain the impropriety of allowing his constant attendance; for Sir Clement with all his easiness, could not be so eternally of our parties, if the Captain was less fond of ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney

... completed, the experience of the last marks in characters too strong to be mistaken its inevitable consequences; and should such war occur and find us unprepared for it, what will be our justification to the enlightened body whom we represent for not having completed these defenses? That this system should not have been adopted before the late war can not be a cause of surprise to anyone, because all might wish to avoid every expense the necessity of which might be in any degree doubtful. But with ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 2: James Monroe • James D. Richardson

... God sent before His appearance wind, (29) earthquake, fire, and a still small voice were to instruct Elijah about the destiny of man. God told Elijah that these four represent the worlds through which man must pass: the first stands for this world, fleeting as the wind; the earthquake is the day of death, which makes the human body to tremble and quake; fire is the tribunal in Gehenna, and the still small voice ...
— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... the famous rahat-li-coom boiling in the caldrons, and then flavored and beaten and drawn, and then had eaten it. We had smoked many okes of Latakia. We had spent pleasant evenings among the foreign residents at Bournabat, where the dress-coat and claret-jug and piano represent Western civilization to the merchants and consuls tired after a long day in the hot, reeking, noisy town. We had learned to find our way through the bazaar without a guide, and had bought shawls and rugs in the Persian khan, driving close bargains, as we thought, after hours of patient ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various

... thus engraven, the workmen had put a crown all round it, where the nature of all sorts of fruit was represented, insomuch that the bunches of grapes hung up. And when they had made the stones to represent all the kinds of fruit before mentioned, and that each in its proper color, they made them fast with gold round the whole table. The like disposition of the oval figures, and of the engraved rods, was framed under the crown, that the table might on each ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus


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