Portraying

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Portray \Por*tray"\, v. t. [Written also {pourtray}.] [imp. & p.
     p. {portrayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Portraying}.] [OE.
     pourtraien, OF. portraire, pourtraire, F. portraire, fr. L.
     protrahere, protractum, to draw or drag forth; pro forward,
     forth + trahere to draw. See {Trace}, v. t., and cf.
     {Protract}.]


     1. To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on
        horseback.
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              Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray
              upon it the city, even Jerusalem.     --Ezek. iv. 1.
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     2. Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
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     3. To adorn with pictures. [R.]
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              Spear and helmets thronged, and shields
              Various with boastful arguments potrayed. --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  portraying
       n : a representation by picture or portraiture [syn: {depicting},
            {depiction}, {portrayal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "portraying":
     apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative,
     graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative,
     incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying,
     pictographic, pictorial, representational, representative,
     representing, simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid