Word Meanings - TYPIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

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• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• REPRESENTER
  1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. 2. A representative. Swift.
• REPRESENTATIVE
  Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
• REPRESENTATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
• REPRESENT
  To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative,3. The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the
• REPRESENTATION
  1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical
• TYPIFY
  To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance. Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness. Sir T. Browne. (more info) Etym:
• FIGUREHEAD
  The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship. 2. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
• FIGURED
  1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin. 2. Not literal; figurative. Locke. Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3. Indicated or noted by figures. Figured bass. See Continued bass, under Continued.
• REPRESENTMENT
  Representation.
• FIGURE
  A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of
• REPRESENTANCE
  Representation; likeness. Donne.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.
• DEFIGURE
  To delineate. These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• MISREPRESENTATIVE
  Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
• MISREPRESENTER
  One who misrepresents.
• REFIGURE
  To figure again. Shak.
• PRETYPIFY
  To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.
• PREFIGUREMENT
  The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.
• DISFIGURE
  To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton. Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure. (more info) dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape,