Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the quality of depicting or portraying; pictorial: as, the depictive character of Chinese writing.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
depiction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective depicted in a recognizable manner
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Examples
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This scenario about Mary is depictive of how many of us can get caught on a "sticky floor" -- those beliefs, assumptions or behaviors that can be self-limiting in terms of achieving goals in our professional and personal life.
Rebecca Shambaugh: Building Strategic Relationships Rebecca Shambaugh 2011
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She has since flourished as a painter fluent in both the abstract and depictive.
Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Painter Stephanie Pryor in the Studio Yasmine Mohseni 2011
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She has since flourished as a painter fluent in both the abstract and depictive.
Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Painter Stephanie Pryor in the Studio Yasmine Mohseni 2011
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She has since flourished as a painter fluent in both the abstract and depictive.
Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Painter Stephanie Pryor in the Studio Yasmine Mohseni 2011
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Your personal experience was so depictive of those also floating comfortably probably many a bit closer to the masters overseeing the critical decisions like for instance David Rockfeller for decades.
They Hate Us From The Bottom of Their Souls - Capitalists Couldn't Care Less 2010
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Did the Romans issue sexually depictive tokens for use in foreign brothels?
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This is depictive of the indescribable suffering that a boy endures, losing his mother to a stranger of the night.
MANHATTAN MAN AND OTHER POEMS by JACK LYNCH EILEEN 2009
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My favorite tidbit about this novel, though, is a little piece of trivia: the term "avatar," as used by computer-folk to describe their depictive counterpart in the virtual world, was brought into popular usage by Snow Crash.
A Little Snow to Close Out March - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009
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* For more on the reparative uses of depictive gesture in real life, see Moore, Robert J.
February 2008 2008
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But with real-time mo-cap, depictive gesturing becomes possible.
February 2008 2008
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