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Representation

REPRESENTA'TION, n.
1. The act of representing, describing or showing.
2. That which exhibits by resemblance; image, likeness, picture or statue; as representations of God.
3. Any exhibition of the form or operations of a thing by something resembling it. A map is a representation of the world or a part of it. The terrestrial globe is a representation of the earth. An orrery is a representation of the planets and their revolutions.
4. Exhibition, as of a play on the stage.
5. Exhibition of a character in theatrical performance.
6. Verbal description; statement of arguments or facts in narration, oratory, debate, petition, admonition, etc.; as the representation of a historian, of a witness or an advocate.
7. The business of acting as a substitute for another; as the representation of a nation in a legislative body.
8. Representatives, as a collective body. It is expedient to have an able representation in both houses of congress.
9. Public exhibition.
10. The standing in the place of another, as an heir, or in the right of taking by inheritance.
representation appears in definitions for these words:
Acquire Adequately Adequateness Adumbration Affection Aggravate Aggravation Aiglet Alleviate Amplification Amplify Anamorphosis Antitype Assemblance Atellan Belie Body Burlesk Calumniation Calumny Camaieu Camayeu Cameo Canton Census Charact Chart Coat Color Coloring Commendation Complaint Corbel Crucifix Delineament Delineation Delusion Description Design Dramatically Drapery Draught Effigy Emblem Emblematically Euphemism Exaggeration Exhibition Exhibitively Express Expression Expressively Expressiveness Expressure Extenuate Faceteness Faintly Faintness Faithful Fancy Feeling Fictitiousness Figure Flatter Foliage General Gest Globe Glory Gloss Glozing Ground High-colored Humor Hydrography Icon Iconology Idol Idolater Image Imagery Imagination Imagine Inadequacy Inadequate Inheriting Just Justice Justness Keeping Know Libel Lie Love Magnify Make Mantling Map Medallion Memorial Mezzotinto Mince Miniature Miracle Mirror Misrepresent Misrepresentation Misrepresenting Misstate Misstatement Model Module Mystery Natural Naturally Obsceneness Orthography Overpicture Palliate Palliation Palliative Pantomime Parable Parabolic Pediment Personate Perspective Perspectively Pictural Picture Plaint Plan Play Popularity Portrait Prefigurate Prefiguration Prefigure Presentation Presentment Pretendedly Print Privy Projection Prospect Rebus Recommend Reddition Rehearse Remonstrance Remonstrate Representance Representation Representment Resemblance Scenery Scenography Scheme Shadow Shaw Sign Species Sphere Sprig Sprigged Stage Striking Subreption Symbol Symbolic Symbolically Tautology Theatric Toy Tragic Trophy Typocosmy Typography Unity Upright Veneering Veronica Xylography

 

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