Associations to the word «Depict»

Wiktionary

DEPICT, verb. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
DEPICT, adjective. (obsolete) Depicted.

Dictionary definition

DEPICT, verb. Show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting".
DEPICT, verb. Give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack".
DEPICT, verb. Make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky