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| Main Entry: |
picture
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depict, describe |
| Synonyms: | delineate, draw, illustrate, image, interpret, limn, paint, photograph, portray, render, represent, show, sketch |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | duplicate |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, carbon, cartoon, clone, counterfeit, delineate, depict, ditto, draw, dupe, engrave, engross, fake, forge, imitate, knock off, limn, manifold, mimeo, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, photostat, picture, plagiarize, portray, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, stat, trace, transcribe |
| Notes: | Xerox is actually a trademark for copies made on that brand of machine; copy is a duplicate made in any of a number of ways, while photocopy is a duplicate made using a machine with a photographic process |
| Main Entry: | depict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe, render in drawing or writing |
| Synonyms: | characterize, delineate, design, detail, illustrate, image, interpret, limn, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, relate, report, represent, reproduce, sculpt, sketch, state |
| Antonyms: | confuse, distort, mix up |
| Main Entry: | describe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | call, characterize, chronicle, communicate, construe, convey image, define, delineate, depict, detail, distinguish, draw, elucidate, epitomize, exemplify, explicate, expound, express, illuminate, illustrate, image, impart, interpret, label, limn, make apparent, make clear, make sense of, make vivid, mark out, name, narrate, outline, paint, particularize, picture, portray, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, represent, sketch, specify, state, tell, term, trace, transmit, write up |
| Antonyms: | confuse, misrepresent, mix up |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conjure up scenario |
| Synonyms: | be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, brainstorm, build castles in air, conceive, concoct, cook up, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker, hatch, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, search for pot of gold, sigh, stargaze, sublimate, think, think up, thirst, visualize |
| Main Entry: | etch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carve |
| Synonyms: | compose, corrode, cut, define, delineate, depict, describe, eat into, engrave, erode, execute, furrow, grave, impress, imprint, incise, ingrain, inscribe, outline, picture, portray, reduce, represent, set forth, stamp |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imagine, create |
| Synonyms: | be inclined to think, believe, conceive, conjecture, dream up, envisage, envision, fantasize, feature*, guess, head trip, image, infer, make up, make up off top of one's head, phantom, picture, realize, reckon, spark, spitball, suppose, surmise, think, think likely, think up, trump up, vision, visualize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, exemplify |
| Synonyms: | allegorize, bring home, clarify, clear, clear up, delineate, depict, disclose, draw a picture, elucidate, emblematize, embody, emphasize, epitomize, evidence, evince, exhibit, explain, expose, expound, get across, get over, highlight, illuminate, imitate, instance, interpret, lay out, limelight, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, mirror, ostend, personify, picture, point up, portray, proclaim, represent, reveal, show, show and tell, spotlight*, symbolize, typify, vivify |
| Antonyms: | hide, obscure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain by drawing, decorating |
| Synonyms: | adorn, delineate, depict, embellish, illuminate, limn, ornament, paint, picture, portray, represent, sketch |
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