DEPICTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depicted mean? 

• DEPICTED (adjective)
  The adjective DEPICTED has 1 sense:

1. represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

  Familiarity information: DEPICTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPICTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

Synonyms:

depicted; pictured; portrayed

Similar:

delineate; delineated; represented (represented accurately or precisely)

 Context examples 

The Milky Way looks nothing like the flat space pancake it is usually depicted as.

(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was inevitable that Milton’s Lucifer should be instanced, and the keenness with which Wolf Larsen analysed and depicted the character was a revelation of his stifled genius.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We moved off in silence, and continued to coast round the line of cliffs, which were as even and unbroken as some of those monstrous Antarctic ice-fields which I have seen depicted as stretching from horizon to horizon and towering high above the mast-heads of the exploring vessel.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Millions of mummified ibis birds have been found in Egyptian tombs and catacombs in Saqqara and Tuna el-Gebel, and Egyptologists have reported they were sacrificed to the god Thoth, who is often depicted with the head of an ibis, the way Horus is shown with the head of a falcon and Bast with the head of a cat.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)

That gentleman was depicted as an intelligent, dignified businessman who had no patience with his brother-in-law's socialistic views, and no patience with the brother-in-law, either, whom he was quoted as characterizing as a lazy good-for-nothing who wouldn't take a job when it was offered to him and who would go to jail yet.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In 2004, Japanese researchers originally discovered that the Shisa gene played a role in the formation of frog heads and, named the gene after a mythological, large-headed, guardian figure depicted in statues throughout southern Japan.

(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)

He looked at his clerk as though he failed to recognise him, and I could see by the astonishment depicted upon our conductor’s face that this was by no means the usual appearance of his employer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this system, the FIGO stage is represented by an Roman numeral, followed by the modified WHO score depicted as an Arabic numeral and separated by a colon (e.g., Stage II:4, Stage IV:9).

(FIGO Staging System and Modified World Health Organization [WHO] Prognostic Scoring System for Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms, NCI Thesaurus)