Used in a Sentence

depicts

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for depicts.

Editorial note

Whereever the orange-blue scheme is used, the blue depicts the background and the orange depicts the action.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of depicts gathered in one view.

verb

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for depicts.

verb

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

Example sentences

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Whereever the orange-blue scheme is used, the blue depicts the background and the orange depicts the action.

2

If what surprised you was Figure 1 in the paper [1], note that it depicts only CS departments.

3

The recent history The Sleepwalkers depicts him as a bit panicked by the approach of the war.

4

Fall of Eagles depicts the Kaiser as being rather childish, whimsical and always having something to prove.

5

Lecturing him just depicts me as smug & superior and him as inferior.

6

It would be interesting to know what each passport image depicts or represents.

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As often as this line is said, I don't think its really as bad as Western media depicts it.

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This realistically depicts both two-party and multiparty elections in most parts of the world, since political positions are not uniformly distributed along n dimensions.

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I've been in the US for about 9 years and this depicts the problem the US has interpreting latin american news.

10

Every single variant that I've seen depicts a white or Indian male, typically trying to look sexy but inevitably only looking awkward.

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I'm sorry, that book has been banned as it depicts sexual acts with minors.

12

His graph of the UCD process essentially depicts it as a waterfall process, where there are several design steps with big Implement and Deploy steps at the end.

Quote examples

1

But the fact that he depicts tax rates as a problem is a major tell." Guess who planted those memes?

2

It's probably one of the better fictional books I've seen that depicts a genuine "born again" experience.

3

I think that in the various scenarios the author depicts, there are too many "then a miracle occurs" steps [0].

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He certainly inspired the movie "Wolf Creek", a famous horror movie among backpackers, since it depicts carpooling in the outback with other sane youngsters and getting savagely murdered.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use depicts in a sentence?

Whereever the orange-blue scheme is used, the blue depicts the background and the orange depicts the action.

What does depicts mean?

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

What part of speech is depicts?

depicts is commonly used as verb.