DEPICTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depicting mean? 

• DEPICTING (noun)
  The noun DEPICTING has 1 sense:

1. a representation by picture or portraiture

  Familiarity information: DEPICTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPICTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A representation by picture or portraiture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

depicting; depiction; portrayal; portraying

Hypernyms ("depicting" is a kind of...):

representational process (any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "depicting"):

mirror (a faithful depiction or reflection)

Derivation:

depict (show in, or as in, a picture)

depict (make a portrait of)

 Context examples 

The researchers collected images depicting metastases where breast cancer had spread beyond the original tumors.

(Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer, NIH)

That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting.

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