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

(transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

* Shakespeare

We will resemble you in that.

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* 2005 , .

But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.

The twins resemble each other.

To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

(obsolete)  To counterfeit; to imitate.

* Holland

They can so well resemble man's speech.

(obsolete)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.