Design vs Depict - What's the difference?

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Design is a related term of depict.

As a noun design

is design (creative profession or art).

As a verb depict is

to render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

As an adjective depict is

(obsolete) depicted.

design

English

(wikipedia design)

Noun

(en noun)

A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.

A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.

The composition of a work of art.

Intention or plot.

* M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:

I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.

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The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.

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The art of designing

Danish furniture design is world-famous.

Derived terms

* architectural design * design by contract * design pattern * hardware design * software design

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.

* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:

he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.

* Dryden

He was designed to the study of the law.

To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

Primitive people believe that gods designed the Earth and humans.

(obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

* Shakespeare

We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .

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depict

English

Verb

(en verb)

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

* 1984 , Lawrence Starr, "Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," American Music , vol. 2, no. 2, p. 27,

The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.

* 1987 , Niall O'Loughlin, "Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar," The Musical Times , vol. 128, no. 1734, p. 443,

Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.

* 1994 , E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News , vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),

False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.

Usage notes

* The subjects of the verb include words, music and images.

Synonyms

* portray, supply, figure, express, exhibit, register, show, return, establish, shew, deliver, present, read, indicate, evidence, point, record, testify, fancy, picture, translate, visualize, usher, give, envision, turn in, designate, limn, show up, render, evince, provide, prove, image, yield, demonstrate, fork out, draw, visualise, generate, describe, interpret, project, submit

Adjective

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(obsolete) Depicted.

(Lydgate)