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Represented   /rˌɛprəzˈɛntəd/  /rˌɛprɪzˈɛntɪd/  /rˌɛprəzˈɛnəd/  /rˌɛprɪzˈɛnɪd/   Listen
Represented

adjective
1.
Represented accurately or precisely.  Synonyms: delineate, delineated.



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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"Represented" Quotes from Famous Books



... writes as follows:—"When two tradesmen have mutual transactions, that man will feel that he is doing best who sells more to his neighbour than he buys from him. And rightly so!" That note of exclamation is his. It also represented my feelings when I read the statement. I am also quite at one with him in the quoted remark, but (as in my poor way, I tried to be consistent) I am at issue when in his first article he chuckles over the excess of imports. Suppose that excess to be made up entirely of shipping, ...
— Are we Ruined by the Germans? • Harold Cox

... story. Afterwards, of course, I may hear much more. The White Father I had gone to see, took me into the church one morning and showed me Our Lady's altar. Over it was an altar-piece of familiar design I think it represented Our Lady of Good Counsel, but I am not sure. In front votive candles blazed, in very creditable profusion for those hard times surely. A silver star with about two-inch points caught my eye. There were other stars ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... impressive background. Besides, the lady was not one to notice things so slight as looks; to keep her in her proper place you would have needed sledge-hammers. She came in without thinking it necessary to wait to be asked to, nodded something that might perhaps have represented a greeting and of which Priscilla took no notice, and her face was the face ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim

... harmony, a harmony of energy and experiment; and although in religious matters the Roman Catholics retained their aloofness, the drawing together of other denominations, as represented by their clergy, has been constant and perfectly natural and unsuspicious. United services have not been common; each denomination has confined itself loyally to its own men; what the statements in the Lower House of Convocation meant to the effect that the amount ...
— The War and Unity - Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer - Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 • Various

... and looked like that personage as represented in comic opera. Seated on a queerly constructed, and somewhat wobbly throne, she told fortunes to those who desired to know what the ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells


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