Symbolize vs Representation - What's the difference?
symbolize | representation |
To be symbolic of; to represent.
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(obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
* Francis Bacon
* Howell
(obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.
* G. S. Faber
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 a verb symbolize
is to be symbolic of; to represent.As a noun representation is
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Alternative forms
* symbolise (UK )Verb
(en-verb)citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- The pleasing of colour symbolizeth' with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth ' symbolize with harmony.
- They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
- The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
Derived terms
* nonsymbolizingrepresentation
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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