Dictionary Thesaurus Word Dynamo Quotes Reference Translator Spanish

represent

[ree-pri-zent]

Example Sentences Origin

verb (used with object)

to present again or anew.

Origin:
1555–65; re- + present²

Can be confused: re-present, represent.

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Represent is always a great word to know.

So is cheesy. Does it mean:

a tiresomely disagreeable person

inferior or cheap, chintzy

LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Example Sentences

The fight among powerhouse dealers to represent lucrative artists' estates is never-ending.

Law students don't usually represent other students who are accused of breaking the law.

All you have to do is represent yourself as the underdog.

EXPAND

The fight among powerhouse dealers to represent lucrative artists' estates is never-ending.

Law students don't usually represent other students who are accused of breaking the law.

All you have to do is represent yourself as the underdog.

Have your students bring from home ten things that they feel represent their culture.

Robots represent our attempts to understand what it means to be human.

Rugged mountains and untamed forest came to represent a country that wanted to see itself as strong and fertile.

More specifically, you are reviewing their ability to represent themselves online.

The problem is that accreditation doesn't represent any of those things, yet.

Economist to represent the company in presentations to other key staff and clients.

Small white arrows that represent the direction in which the plate is moving point toward the upper left.

Much of my understanding of science has come from trying to represent certain concepts in code.

The grey areas represent the parts of the skeleton they recovered.

The lighter colored regions are interpreted to represent sandier sediment and the dark is muddier.

The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily represent those of his employers.

If he wins, he will represent a refreshing new generation of modernisers.

Display the graphs around the room in groups according to the statistics they represent.

On the way to learning that one thing can represent another, young children often conflate the real item and its symbol.

The areas in white represent known parts of the skull.

Black and blue horizontal lines represent the current-price and inflation-adjusted food price thresholds for riots.

In theory, each of those represent bodies with competing interests.

The bigger problem is what the terms are meant to represent.

Ask students to consider what types of objects they think best represent them.

Divers have discovered an unusual flat-faced fish with forward-looking eyes that may represent an entirely new piscine family.

Even if a complete skeleton is ever found, it is not likely to represent the largest member of this genus.

If the scientists are correct, they represent the earliest animals yet known with differentiated toes.

Private loans represent a small-but until recently, rapidly growing-portion of the education-loan market.

Taken together they represent a formidable display of monetary aggression.

Scientists say the murals represent the world's earliest known use of oil-based binders in painting.

All three new puzzles represent sporadic simple groups of permutations.

Fallen leaves represent some of the carbon dioxide that was taken up this year.

The views presented here are my own, and do not represent those of my employer.

Plainly the council must seek to represent the whole country.

Your three countries must have unique characteristics and represent the diversity of that region.

Instead groups of neurons compete to represent a concept, until one emerges dominant.

Collared greens, another tradition, are supposed to represent money.

These strata represent the movement of the ancient shoreline through the area.

Your three states must have unique characteristics and represent the diversity of that region.

And with good reason: they represent a valuable source of protein and fat.

The two newfound clusters represent early discoveries in the international survey project.

Photons represent infinity, cause they are timeless.

These stars represent the four major oceans in the world.

But for researchers, they represent one of the few handles they can grab at to study the molecular pathways behind breast cancer.

But radio waves are fairly low energy, and they represent only a fragment of the star's intensity.

The three new dots represent their offspring, which have the same traits and the same color.

Label each item and also groups of items to explain how they represent parts of your life.

And, it could represent a tipping point in the conflict between food and fuel demand in the future.

The green and yellow areas represent a hot cloud of expanding debris, while the outer shock wave is in blue.

There are organizations that can represent the scientific consensus to the public.

They represent a variety of professions and work with the program for a specific amount of time.

Cartographers use symbols to represent geographic features.

Computers represent all information as a series of zeros and ones, or as digital bits.

Instead a committee is forming to represent those encamped in the city centre.

For example, add food-coloring to vanilla wafers to represent an ammonite or shark tooth.

Anorexia may represent a profound psychiatric disorder that spawns an addiction to deprivation.

The exhibit's hand-woven artifacts represent an amazing geographical swath of the globe:.

Together, the stars represent a previously unseen stage in.

Larger rectangles represent more new in-state students.

Our changing exhibits represent a diverse range of subjects.

They represent the best part of education because you learn by doing and usually have a pretty fun time while you're at it.

Unimaginable wealth and steadily rising exclusivity represent a dangerously unsustainable trend for elite colleges.

But the dollar figure would represent a new high mark in the hand-wringing over coaches' escalating salaries.

Increasingly, customers pay more for a brand because it seems to represent a way of life or a set of ideas.

They select icons to represent the plants and animals they observe, and to describe their characteristics and behaviors.

Those garbagemen represent every kind person in this universe that has been there for us and prayed for us.

Very different jobs, but the three chief executives represent the changing face of the college presidency.

These discouraged workers represent a reservoir of labour-market slack that will dry up only with strong economic growth.

In some cases, such as prairie remnants and old-growth forest stands, the preserved lands represent the last of their kind.

Others represent new inventions by duplicating the functionality of the earlier device in a novel way.

More about how they work in a minute, but for now the news is that the possibilities they represent are staggering.

They represent their time, and they represent the thoughts and dreams of people now much older, or gone completely.

Workers' smart phones and hand-held computers can represent a sizable security risk if confidential files are stored on them.

But his recent moves suggest that he is not about to give up his claim to represent the refugees.

And while it's nowhere near a return to the go-go years preceding the recession, the moves represent a significant thaw.

Paler colours represent a smaller voter share and stronger colours a bigger one.

The color-coded image above uses red and white to represent the highest elevations, and blue and purple represent the lowest.

No one knows for sure what the images represent or why they were painted.

Of course, no such poll can be said to represent an accurate picture of popular opinion.

Most of these dips represent only candidate planets at the moment, rather than confirmed ones.

Because mummification was unintentional, the mummies represent a broad social spectrum of the community.

It is not clear whether all of them are meant to represent separate possibilities.

They represent local samples of ancient ecosystems.

Taken as a whole, they represent his basic theory of relativity and help form the basis of modern physics.

Since they represent the growth area in higher education, we're happy to hear that candidates are interested in them.

Taken together the pacts represent a big leap forward in.

The collectors represent different generations and show how the impulse to collect continues today among a younger generation.

In this guide, we'll show you how to customize your iPhone screen to visually represent the cool cat you really are.

Being seen to represent youth, the future and the prospect of change is generally a good thing.

Ask yourself if any of the sounds represent any of the sound types listed above.

Yet content can be provided only if the basic infrastructure to represent and process this content is intact.

The creche figures represent all walks of life and are sprinkled throughout the panorama.

The colors on geological maps represent different rock units of different ages.

The law will pave the way for a complicated scheme that would allow multiple unions to represent the workers of a single.

The fossils represent the first evidence of ancient iridescence in feathers.

Thus, tanning beds do not represent a safe tanning option.

Depending on who you ask, the remains attributed to the controversial dinosaur represent a small-bodied tyrannosaur.

Have them use different colors to represent warmer and cooler water, and arrows to represent the direction the water is moving.

The achievement could represent a major step toward making the dream of successful xenotransplantation a reality.

They also represent the loss of a good deal of revenue for state prison systems:.

Each shaft may represent a family of this period," he said.

But the media should properly represent facts/physics with accuracy where it is blatantly wrong or incredulous.

Spinning steel brackets and columns of gearwheels, which represent numbers, create a fluid mechanized helical dance.

They represent the southernmost nomadic reindeer culture in the world.

The ideas represent a simple yet powerful vision of a better future.

These cubs are the result of a new approach to clouded leopard reproduction, and represent hope for a species threatened by.

The authors then propose a calculation for working out which firms represent the biggest risk as follows:.

Both the smart phone and lunch box represent intermediate steps in my opinion.

The four campfires smoldering around us represent the cardinal directions.

While this group cannot claim to do half the world's trade, it can claim to represent half of the world's population.

The baby cats represent a small leap forward for the world's fastest land animals, which rarely breed in capitivity.

The market is so large that any one technology is unlikely to represent a significant share of petroleum.

Carnivorous lunches with one of his brothers represent a brief but regular weekday reprieve for him.

But even in one of the world's richest countries the hard-up represent a huge and growing market.

Have students determine whether the statements above represent human forces or natural forces.

Instead large and small brains seem to represent different but equally good evolutionary outcomes.

Marsh recognized this and meant for the reconstruction to represent only the general archetype of the dinosaur.

Tar sands and biofuels represent only a small part of global energy use.

People represent the concepts of past and future in a bodily code that includes direction of movement and perception of space.

Some plaster walls bear bas-reliefs of leopards and apparently female figures that may represent goddesses.

Each singing male is presumed to represent a breeding pair.

Our politicians represent those who paid for them to get in office.

Those dark spaces represent thousands of square miles of mountains, mesas and plains occupied by absolutely no one.

The two dials in the rear of the mechanism seem to represent eclipses and a combined solar-lunar calendar.

Today's unmanned orbital droids may represent the state of the art.

They represent a narrative generated by the unconscious mind that can rather easily be manipulated.

Determining exactly what species of dinosaur the skin impressions represent is extremely difficult.

Andean textile artists use ancient symbols to represent the geographic landscape in their creations.

COLLAPSE

Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.

to express or designate by some term, character, symbol, or the like: to represent musical sounds by notes.

to stand or act in the place of, as a substitute, proxy, or agent does: He represents the company in Boston.

to speak and act for by delegated authority: to represent one's government in a foreign country.

to act for or in behalf of (a constituency, state, etc.) by deputed right in exercising a voice in legislation or government: He represents Chicago's third Congressional district.

EXPAND

to portray or depict; present the likeness of, as a picture does: The painting represents him as a man 22 years old.

to present or picture to the mind.

to present in words; set forth; describe; state.

to set forth or describe as having a particular character (usually followed by as, to be, etc.): The article represented the dictator as a benevolent despot.

10.

to set forth clearly or earnestly with a view to influencing opinion or action or making protest.

11.

to present, produce, or perform, as on a stage.

12.

to impersonate, as in acting.

13.

to serve as an example or specimen of; exemplify: a genus represented by two species.

14.

to be the equivalent of; correspond to: The llama of the New World represents the camel of the Old World.

COLLAPSE

verb (used without object)

15.

to protest; make representations against.

16.

Slang. to use or display a secret handshake, sign, gesture, etc., for purposes of identification: The gang members always represent when they see one another.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English representen < Middle French representer < Latin repraesentāre to bring about immediately, make present, equivalent to re- re- + praesentāre to present²

Related forms

rep·re·sent·a·ble, adjective

rep·re·sent·a·bil·i·ty, noun

non·rep·re·sent·a·ble, adjective

pre·rep·re·sent, verb (used with object)

un·rep·re·sent·a·ble, adjective

Can be confused: re-present, represent.

Synonyms
1. exemplify. 6. delineate. 12. portray.

Link To represent

Collins

World English Dictionary

represent (ˌrɛprɪˈzɛnt)

—vb
1.	to stand as an equivalent of; correspond to: our tent represents home to us when we go camping
2.	to act as a substitute or proxy (for)
3.	to act as or be the authorized delegate or agent for (a person, country, etc): an MP represents his constituency
4.	to serve or use as a means of expressing: letters represent the sounds of speech
5.	to exhibit the characteristics of; exemplify; typify: romanticism in music is represented by Beethoven
6.	to present an image of through the medium of a picture or sculpture; portray
7.	to bring clearly before the mind
8.	to set forth in words; state or explain
9.	to describe as having a specified character or quality; make out to be: he represented her as a saint
10.	to act out the part of on stage; portray
11.	to perform or produce (a play); stage

[C14: from Latin repraesentāre to exhibit, from re- + praesentāre to present²]

repre'sentable

—*adj*

representa'bility

—n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

represent

late 14c., "to bring to mind by description," also "to symbolize, to be the embodiment of;" from O.Fr. representer (12c.), from L. repræsentare, from re-, intensive prefix, + præsentare "to present," lit. "to place before" (see present (2)). Legislative sense

EXPAND

is attested from 1650s. Representation "image, likeness" is from c.1425; legislative sense first attested 1769.

COLLAPSE

Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com

Searching for represent?
How many words do you actually know?

FIND OUT

prefigure symbolize type abbreviate abbreviation able

Matching Quote

"The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies."

-Joseph Addison

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Sendori Thesaurus

About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help

represent

re-pre·sent

rep·re·sent