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adj
noun
- The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning.
- the use of symbols to convey meaning
- (psychology) The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another.
- something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
- the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
verb
noun
- (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
- A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
- (programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
- A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
- A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
- (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
- (telecommunications) A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.
- something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
- an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
noun
- The process of embodying.
- (sociology) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
- (countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
- giving concrete form to an abstract concept
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- a new personification of a familiar idea
noun
- The act of representing.
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others
- A theatrical performance.
- (law) 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.
- (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
- (mathematics) An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.
- (by extension, uncountable) The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
- That which represents something else.
- a performance of a play
- the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
- the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
- a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
- a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
- a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract
- a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
- a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency
- the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
- an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
noun
- an iconic mental representation
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a standard or typical example
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- A statue or idol.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
verb
noun
- the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts)
- a language user's knowledge of words
- a listing of the words used in some enterprise
- (by extension) A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques.
- The stock of words used in a particular field.
- The words of a language collectively; lexis.
- A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
- The collection of words a person knows and uses.
noun
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- something to be imitated
- someone worthy of imitation
- a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
- a representative form or pattern
- a type of product
- (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
- (biology, medicine) An organism or species that is used to study an aspect of physiology or pathophysiology or a particular disease; often, a nonhuman one used to approximate processes in humans.
- A style, type, or design.
- A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
- Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
- The structural design of a complex system.
- (logic) An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
- A representation of a physical object.
- (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
- A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
- A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
- A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
adj
verb
- display (clothes) as a mannequin
- form in clay, wax, etc
- create a representation or simulation of
- construct a model in the likeness of
- plan or create according to a model or models
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- (intransitive) To work as a model in art or fashion.
- (transitive) To devise a model of (some original), especially to better understand or forecast the original.
- (intransitive) To make a model or models.
- (transitive) To make a miniature model of.
- (transitive) To create from a substance such as clay.
- (transitive) To display an item on one's body for others to see the potential effect on their own bodies, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
noun
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- sculpture produced by molding
- (mathematics) The construction and use of a computer model of a physical system.
- The profession of someone who models clothes.
- The representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.
- The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.
- The learning of a new skill by copying other people.
verb
noun
- The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
- (semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
- (computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
- (logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
- (philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word
- (media studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
noun
- anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
- a written account of ownership or obligation
- writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
- (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
- An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
- Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
- (information science) An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
- (computing) A file that contains text.
verb
noun
- a system of symbols and symbolic representations
- an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
- the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
- (art) An art movement originating in late 19th-century France and Belgium, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
- Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
noun
- the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify
- a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
- superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.
- A change that exalts or glorifies.
- A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
adj
- Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
- Metaphorically so called.
- With many figures of speech.
- Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.
- (art) Representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.
- (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
- consisting of or forming human or animal figures
noun
- The act of incarnating.
- An incarnate being or form.
- The state of being incarnated.
- A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
- A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- An assumption of human form or nature.
- A version or iteration (of something).
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- time passed in a particular bodily form
- a new personification of a familiar idea
verb
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- (music) To embellish.
- (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
- (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
- (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
- (chiefly US) To come to understand.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- understand
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- be or play a part of or in
- judge to be probable
noun
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A shape.
- A number, an amount.
- (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
- (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A numeral.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A figure of speech.
- (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
- a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- a well-known or notable person
- a decorative or artistic work
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
- an amount of money expressed numerically
- the impression produced by a person
- one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
- a model of a bodily form (especially of a person)
verb
- serve as a means of expressing something
- be typical of
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
- describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality
- create an image or likeness of
- play a role or part
- form or compose
- be the defense counsel for someone in a trial
- express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
- bring forward and present to the mind
- be representative or typical for
- to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)
- be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute
- take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to
- point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance
- (by extension) To present again, possibly in an altered form.
- (transitive) To portray visually; to delineate
- (transitive) To serve as a sign or symbol of.
- (transitive) To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
- (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.)
- (transitive) To constitute, to make up, to be an example of.
- (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
- (medicine) To present again, for instance for medical attention.
- (poker, transitive) To play as if holding (a set of cards); to play as if having made (a hand).
- (transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
- (transitive) To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of
- (transitive) To give an account of; to describe.
- (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of
- (sports, transitive) To participate as a team member.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people; to acquit oneself well.
noun
- The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning.
- the use of symbols to convey meaning
- (psychology) The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another.
- something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
- the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
noun
- The process of embodying.
- (sociology) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
- (countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
- giving concrete form to an abstract concept
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- a new personification of a familiar idea
noun
- The act of representing.
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others
- A theatrical performance.
- (law) 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.
- (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
- (mathematics) An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.
- (by extension, uncountable) The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
- That which represents something else.
- a performance of a play
- the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
- the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
- a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
- a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
- a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract
- a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
- a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency
- the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
- an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
noun
- an iconic mental representation
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a standard or typical example
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- A statue or idol.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
verb
noun
- the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts)
- a language user's knowledge of words
- a listing of the words used in some enterprise
- (by extension) A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques.
- The stock of words used in a particular field.
- The words of a language collectively; lexis.
- A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
- The collection of words a person knows and uses.
noun
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- something to be imitated
- someone worthy of imitation
- a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
- representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale)
- a representative form or pattern
- a type of product
- (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
- (biology, medicine) An organism or species that is used to study an aspect of physiology or pathophysiology or a particular disease; often, a nonhuman one used to approximate processes in humans.
- A style, type, or design.
- A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
- Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
- The structural design of a complex system.
- (logic) An interpretation which makes a set of sentences true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that set.
- A representation of a physical object.
- (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
- A person, usually attractive, who is hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items that are given away as prizes on a TV game show.
- A person who serves as a human template for artwork or fashion.
- A simulation used to analyze the workings of a real world system or event.
adj
verb
- display (clothes) as a mannequin
- form in clay, wax, etc
- create a representation or simulation of
- construct a model in the likeness of
- plan or create according to a model or models
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- (intransitive) To work as a model in art or fashion.
- (transitive) To devise a model of (some original), especially to better understand or forecast the original.
- (intransitive) To make a model or models.
- (transitive) To make a miniature model of.
- (transitive) To create from a substance such as clay.
- (transitive) To display an item on one's body for others to see the potential effect on their own bodies, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
noun
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- sculpture produced by molding
- (mathematics) The construction and use of a computer model of a physical system.
- The profession of someone who models clothes.
- The representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.
- The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.
- The learning of a new skill by copying other people.
verb
noun
- The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
- (semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
- (computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
- (logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
- (philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word
- (media studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
noun
- anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
- a written account of ownership or obligation
- writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
- (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
- An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
- Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
- (information science) An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
- (computing) A file that contains text.
verb
noun
- a system of symbols and symbolic representations
- an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
- the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
- (art) An art movement originating in late 19th-century France and Belgium, seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
- Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
noun
- the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify
- a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
- superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.
- A change that exalts or glorifies.
- A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
noun
- The act of incarnating.
- An incarnate being or form.
- The state of being incarnated.
- A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
- A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- An assumption of human form or nature.
- A version or iteration (of something).
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- time passed in a particular bodily form
- a new personification of a familiar idea
verb
noun
- (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
- A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
- (programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
- A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
- A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
- (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
- (telecommunications) A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.
- something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
- an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
verb
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- (music) To embellish.
- (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
- (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
- (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
- (chiefly US) To come to understand.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- understand
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- be or play a part of or in
- judge to be probable
noun
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A shape.
- A number, an amount.
- (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
- (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A numeral.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A figure of speech.
- (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
- a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- a well-known or notable person
- a decorative or artistic work
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
- an amount of money expressed numerically
- the impression produced by a person
- one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
- a model of a bodily form (especially of a person)
verb
- serve as a means of expressing something
- be typical of
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
- describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality
- create an image or likeness of
- play a role or part
- form or compose
- be the defense counsel for someone in a trial
- express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
- bring forward and present to the mind
- be representative or typical for
- to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)
- be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute
- take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to
- point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance
- (by extension) To present again, possibly in an altered form.
- (transitive) To portray visually; to delineate
- (transitive) To serve as a sign or symbol of.
- (transitive) To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
- (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.)
- (transitive) To constitute, to make up, to be an example of.
- (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
- (medicine) To present again, for instance for medical attention.
- (poker, transitive) To play as if holding (a set of cards); to play as if having made (a hand).
- (transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
- (transitive) To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of
- (transitive) To give an account of; to describe.
- (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of
- (sports, transitive) To participate as a team member.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people; to acquit oneself well.
adj
adj
- Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
- Metaphorically so called.
- With many figures of speech.
- Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.
- (art) Representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.
- (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
- consisting of or forming human or animal figures