Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Representation

Nouns
  • representation, representment
  • imitation etc. Imitation
  • illustration, delineation, depictment
  • imagery, portraiture, iconography
  • design, designing
  • art, fine arts
  • painting etc. Painting
  • sculpture etc. Sculpture
  • engraving etc. Engraving
  • photography, cinematography
  • radiography, autoradiography [Bioch.], fluorography [Chem], sciagraphy. personation, personification
  • impersonation
  • drama etc. The Drama. picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot
  • X-ray photo
  • movie film, movie
  • tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV. copy etc. [Result of imitation.] Copy
  • drawing, sketch, drought, draft
  • plot, chart, figure, scheme. image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness
  • very image
  • effigy, facsimile. figure, figure head
  • puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust
  • statue, statuette. ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph
  • diagram, monogram. map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan) Plan. ichnography, cartography
  • atlas
  • outline, scheme
  • view etc. (painting) Painting
  • radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph
  • spectrogram, heliogram.
Verbs
  • represent, delineate
  • depict, depicture
  • portray
  • take a likeness, catch a likeness etc. n.
  • hit off, photograph, daguerreotype
  • snapshot
  • figure, shadow forth, shadow out
  • adumbrate
  • body forth
  • describe etc. Description
  • trace, copy
  • mold. dress up
  • illustrate, symbolize. paint etc. Painting
  • carve etc. Sculpture
  • engrave etc. Engraving. personate, personify
  • impersonate
  • assume a character
  • pose as
  • act
  • play etc. (drama) The Drama
  • mimic etc. (imitate) Imitation
  • hold the mirror up to nature.
Adjectives
  • represent, representing etc. v., representative
  • illustrative [Slang]
  • represented etc. v.
  • imitative, figurative
  • iconic. like etc. Similarity
  • graphic etc. (descriptive) Description
  • trecento.