Definition of Represent

Represent

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 pictoral 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 which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3.

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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack Obama

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
Norman Cousins

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Carroll Quigley

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Charles Baudelaire