Represent vs Feature - 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).
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(label) One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.
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An important or main item.
(label) A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
(label) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
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The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
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(label) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
(label) Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
To star, to contain.
to appear; to make an appearance.
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Represent is a related term of feature.
As verbs the difference between represent and feature
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 feature is to ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.As a noun feature is
(label) one's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.represent
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- He represented that he was investigating for the police department.
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(wikipedia feature)Noun
(en noun)- all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature .
- A feature' of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other ' features at these sites may include small hearths.
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