Decapitated vs Depicted - What's the difference?
decapitated | depicted |
(depict)
To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
* 1984 , Lawrence Starr, "Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," American Music , vol. 2, no. 2, p. 27,
* 1987 , Niall O'Loughlin, "Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar," The Musical Times , vol. 128, no. 1734, p. 443,
* 1994 , E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News , vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),
(obsolete) Depicted.
As verbs the difference between decapitated and depicted
is that decapitated is (decapitate) while depicted is (depict).As an adjective decapitated
is with the head removed.depicted
English
Verb
(head)depict
English
Verb
(en verb)- The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.
- Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.
- False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.
Usage notes
* The subjects of the verb include words, music and images.Synonyms
* portray, supply, figure, express, exhibit, register, show, return, establish, shew, deliver, present, read, indicate, evidence, point, record, testify, fancy, picture, translate, visualize, usher, give, envision, turn in, designate, limn, show up, render, evince, provide, prove, image, yield, demonstrate, fork out, draw, visualise, generate, describe, interpret, project, submitAdjective
(-)- (Lydgate)