Verb

(en verb)

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

To portray by pictorial or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.

To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.

To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress.

To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe.

He represented that he was investigating for the police department.

To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.

To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.

To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(announc)

(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

* (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)

Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

(label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.