Represent vs Elect - What's the difference?
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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.
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)
One chosen or set apart.
(uncountable, theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
* Bible, Isaiah xlii. 1
* Bible, Luke xviii. 7
To choose or make a decision (to do something)
To choose (a candidate) in an election
(used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
* Spenser
* Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21
As verbs the difference between represent and elect
is that represent is 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 while elect is to choose or make a decision (to do something.As a noun elect is
one chosen or set apart.As an adjective elect is
who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.represent
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- He represented that he was investigating for the police department.
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Noun
(en-noun)- Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth.
- Shall not God avenge his won elect ?
Antonyms
* reprobateVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(-)- He is the President-elect .
- She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect .
- colours quaint elect
- the elect angels
