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  • verb Present participle of depict.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a representation by picture or portraiture

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Examples

  • But the USDA (and federal law) defines it quite specifically as "commercial or industrial products, other than food or feed, that are composed in whole, or in significant part, of biological products or renewable agricultural materials (including plant, animal, and aquatic materials), or forestry materials" -- hence the label depicting the soil, sea, and the sun.

    Jacquelyn Ottman: The Rise of the Biobased Economy... And Why Brand Owners Need to Develop a Strategy in 2012 Jacquelyn Ottman 2012

  • But the USDA (and federal law) defines it quite specifically as "commercial or industrial products, other than food or feed, that are composed in whole, or in significant part, of biological products or renewable agricultural materials (including plant, animal, and aquatic materials), or forestry materials" -- hence the label depicting the soil, sea, and the sun.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jacquelyn Ottman 2012

  • They said they were especially outraged by an Internet ad for the show, "Michael Jackson's Autopsy," which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove.

    Discovery PULLS Bizarre Michael Jackson 'Autopsy' Show AP 2011

  • They said they were especially outraged by an Internet ad for the show, "Michael Jackson's Autopsy," which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove.

    Discovery PULLS Bizarre Michael Jackson 'Autopsy' Show AP 2011

  • They said they were especially outraged by an Internet ad for the show, "Michael Jackson's Autopsy," which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove.

    Discovery PULLS Bizarre Michael Jackson 'Autopsy' Show AP 2011

  • They said they were especially outraged by an Internet ad for the show, "Michael Jackson's Autopsy," which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove.

    Discovery PULLS Bizarre Michael Jackson 'Autopsy' Show AP 2011

  • Instead, we settled on six bottles of non-alcoholic champagne with a label depicting a Monet painting and featuring the words: "From the Private Collection of Suzanne and Ben Barlyn."

    Beyond Coke: Vanity Soda Bottles 2008

  • PORTLAND, Maine — A beer distributor says Maine is being a Scrooge by barring it from selling a beer with a label depicting Santa Claus enjoying a pint of brew.

    Maine Bans Santa Beer Label 2006

  • There is, however, a second realism in Auerbach, the French nineteenth-century realism, which he defines as depicting contemporary reality, immersed in the dynamic concreteness of the stream of history.

    REALISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Autopsy, which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

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