Symbolic vs Representation - What's the difference?
symbolic | representation |
Pertaining to a symbol.
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That which represents another.
(legal) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
(politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
(mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
A theatrical performance.
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d
As an adjective symbolic
is pertaining to a symbol.As a noun representation is
representation.symbolic
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Adjective
(en adjective)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
Derived terms
* symbolical * symbolically * symbolicsrepresentation
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(wikipedia representation)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1637 , ,final sentence*: Live, ?weet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your mo?t honoured parents, and as in this repræ?entation your attendant Thyr?is , ?o now in all reall expre??ion
Your faithfull and mo?t humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d
