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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
represent
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lawyer acts for/defends/represents sb
▪ a group of lawyers who represent the airline
mark/represent a shift
▪ The idea represents a dramatic shift in health care policy.
represent a breakthrough
▪ This represents a major breakthrough in the search for a cure.
represent a client
▪ Mead was a top attorney representing major corporate clients.
represent a minority
▪ Old people still only represent a minority of the population.
represent a threat
▪ He is not afraid, because you represent no threat to him.
represent an improvement (=be an improvement)
▪ A pre-tax profit of 4.3 million pounds represents a 5% improvement on last year.
represent your country
▪ It’s a great honour to be chosen to represent your country in a sport.
sth represents an achievement (=something is an achievement)
▪ Few people realised what an enormous achievement Concorde represented.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
only
▪ In placid periods this measure would represent only a very modest implicit tax on speculation.
▪ Political action committees, which are more active in congressional races, represented only 2 percent of the presidential campaign coffers.
▪ For them aircraft represent only a small part of their huge engineering and shipbuilding businesses.
▪ The results represented only small Steps toward equipping Taylor with the knowledge he needed to challenge the combined experience of the men.
▪ Anyway, they represent only a fraction of the long distance paths Britain has to offer.
▪ Each of these incremental shifts represents only a brief moment in geological time.
▪ Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 percent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects.
■ NOUN
association
▪ Why does government give attention to the views of the associations that represent the various groups of local authorities?
▪ The Tennessee Education Association, which represents 43, 000 teachers in the state, has opposed the evolution bill.
▪ It would be helpful if you could indicate on the attached reply slip if your Association will be represented at the meeting.
▪ Trade unions are associations of workers which represent their members in all negotiations with employers.
▪ The professional associations representing accountants sponsor numerous courses, seminars, group study programs, and other forms of continuing education.
▪ Twenty years later he decided to lodge an Entitlement Appeal against the decision, and nominated the Association to represent him.
▪ The associations which they represent can be seen in the ways in which they have been quoted by others.
attorney
▪ An attorney representing a client before a court helps to make the trial fair, but the attorney is not neutral.
▪ Saturday, Wilson also signed a measure to increase the number of defense attorneys who represent Death Row inmates in their appeals.
▪ The professors were not training young attorneys to represent peo-ple.
▪ Theodore Graham, an attorney representing the out-of-work San Diego Symphony musicians.
▪ But the reverse is true when an attorney represents a person who is obviously guilty or whose guilt is widely perceived.
▪ I really believe that we would get an attorney and we would represent ourselves.
▪ As an attorney, he represented the poor Thee of charge.
challenge
▪ The paper claims this represents a serious challenge to other Risc vendors jostling for position in the software arena.
▪ What happened there represents a frontal challenge to how the courts, the states and the federal government administer justice.
▪ They represent a very real challenge to the pub traditional client base.
▪ I chose seven contrasting but popular sports, some I had played many times before, others representing new challenges.
▪ This historical work itself represents a strong challenge to some of the premises which underpin the idea of structured dependency.
▪ Indirectly this must have represented a challenge to the influence of Aethelred of Mercia in the East Saxon region.
▪ Strikes, in other words, represent a challenge to managerial authority.
▪ Involving professional services, these two sectors represent particular challenges in managing change.
country
▪ He says it's not everyone who gets a chance to represent their country.
▪ So far, the users represent more than 50 countries.
▪ They're embarrassed to have such primitive people represent the country to the rest of the world.
▪ Global information distribution networks represent the infrastructure crisscrossing countries and continents.
▪ They would like to represent their country internationally.
▪ They have represented their country at Under-19 level.
▪ She represented her country in the senior Home Internationals and was undefeated in singles.
figure
▪ The figure represents a rise of £848 compared to the 1991 surplus.
▪ But these figures do not represent real growth of the economy that people live from.
▪ Figure 1.1 represents the civil court structure and Figure 1.2 represents the criminal court structure.
▪ The figures represent 2.4 children per 1,000 in the county, compared to an average of 4.2 per 1,000 in the North-East.
▪ This equals the comparative cost and again the lowest figure represents the best value.
▪ A heavy bar below the figure represents identity across the five genes; a light bar represents a position of conservative change.
▪ The figures given represent an average over the year.
group
▪ The second group represented wild birds transplanted from not far away.
▪ The group represents instead, a combination of such contrasting interests.
▪ Most of the other groups represent segments of the health care system, from insurers to clinics.
▪ It consists of a number of locally-based groups, linked together by a holding committee on which the district groups are represented.
▪ Work with a group large enough to represent all the various essential interests yet small enough to still be manageable.
▪ This group therefore represents the most committed sports participants.
▪ But groups representing the disabled are threatening to disrupt the day.
increase
▪ Salinity has reached 14 parts per thousand which represents a 40 percent increase since 1951.
▪ This represents a 25 % increase over the figure for 1994, which was itself sharply higher than for 1993.
▪ This represents an increase of 13.4 per cent compared to the previous year's results.
▪ The investment by 3i represented a 73% increase over the previous year, which ended at 31 March 1990.
▪ At constant prices accounting for price movements, this represents a 7.6% increase, comparing favourably with last years increase of 1.6%.
▪ Although the figure is small, it represents a dramatic increase compared with a total of six elected officials in 1962.
▪ Eventhat figure represented a huge increase on previous statistics.
▪ This represents an increase of 10.7% on last years figure of £317.3 million.
lawyer
▪ It's a question that lawyers representing the two Hitachi employees wanted to pursue in open court.
▪ A lawyer representing the company currently servicing the loan denies Aikens' assertions.
▪ She thought lawyers represented ultimate respectability-they all made millions, rode in nice cars, and spoke fluently.
▪ They are essential reading for child care lawyers who wish to represent their clients effectively in court.
▪ Donald Steier, a Los Angeles lawyer who represented Llanos, said the priest maintained that he was innocent.
▪ The lawyer representing the team doctor, Eric Rijkaert, also gave more details of the organisation of doping within the team.
▪ Bernstein include clients the two lawyers represent and for whom they have won substantial judgments.
party
▪ The election was contested by 1,126 candidates representing 20 political parties and 219 independents.
▪ The republic's 245,000 registered voters were to elect deputies to the 42-seat Federal Assembly from 320 candidates representing 21 parties.
▪ The congress was attended by 1,176 delegates representing over 2,000,000 party members.
▪ The rulings were created and administered by the local law society which represents all interested professional parties.
▪ Most of its members represent the old party and management apparatus.
▪ The election was contested by over 2,700 candidates representing 79 political parties.
▪ Power lay in the hands of a Committee of Public Safety, which represented all local parties and institutions.
percent
▪ Salinity has reached 14 parts per thousand which represents a 40 percent increase since 1951.
▪ Either would be in sharp contrast to pre-settlement times, when pines represented 90 percent of the forest.
▪ This represents 10 percent. of the United Kingdom total compared with 14 percent. in July 1989.
▪ Third World loans represent a mere six percent of their total portfolios.
▪ In 1994, the public deficit represented 6 percent of national output.
▪ But solid coffins represent less than 10 percent of the Coop's business.
▪ The United States is the second most popular destination for its exchangers, representing about 20 percent of houses listed.
state
▪ Species, then, are real, even if they do not represent different stable states of matter.
▪ These, representing a powerful State, are highly interventionist, concerned with efficiency and productivity, and rationalists to the core.
▪ All three countries represent a state of affairs that defies predominant theories in comparative politics.
▪ Thus state policies and actions reflect the balance of class forces and the way that balance is represented within the state.
▪ But one of his students was Dan Morales, the Texas attorney general who is representing the state.
▪ Commissioner Zen and I represent the State.
▪ The chief executive, or her delegates, represents the state in its dealings with other countries.
union
▪ The trade union representing the workforce at these plants had threatened to go on strike if their jobs are put at risk.
▪ Many athletes from the former Soviet Union now represent their home nations.
▪ Senior officials of the four unions representing Rover workers are trying to find an alternative buyer.
▪ A hundred different trade unions may be represented on one site.
▪ It is significant that the union which represents the employed workers of Cartón has never been on strike.
▪ Some sacrifice, sneered the union representing the bank's 4,500 workers, before calling for wage talks.
value
▪ What causes offence is that he merely represents a shifting of values for the mass of young people.
▪ We think these plans represent fairness and value for all Raiders fans.
▪ In the first version, each card laid represents a value, such as love or luck.
▪ I used to pour the orange juice, which represented the added value in our products, into four separate glasses.
▪ This equals the comparative cost and again the lowest figure represents the best value.
▪ Most are heavily subsidised and represent excellent value for hard-pressed school budgets.
▪ The new subscription rates still represent exceptional value.
▪ Your new Thames Water charges still represent exceedingly good value for a continuous supply of water and our sewage services.
view
▪ I assume, therefore, that what he has said represents the majority view within his party.
▪ One is that each theory represents only a partial view of the 183 whole.
▪ Is it not about time that the Minister started to represent doctors' views properly?
▪ Andrea Seastrand, R-Calif. made an argument that seemed to represent the majority view.
▪ This represents a limiting view of initiative.
▪ But Bomer said members represented every point of view in the state.
▪ A machine could effectively represent the views of the population using this information.
▪ I found out Monday that he was representing his own views, not the organization.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
let sth be/equal/represent sth
▪ Let c equal 6.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As a top agent, Ovitz represented some of Hollywood's biggest stars.
▪ Each class will elect two students to represent them on the School Council.
▪ Einstein's theory represented a significant departure from previous theories.
▪ Single letters or combinations of letters represent different phonetic sounds.
▪ The athletes will represent China in this year's Olympic Games.
▪ the Congressman who represents the taxpayers of District 1
▪ The dummies represent average-sized adult males.
▪ The new law has been criticized by groups representing disabled people.
▪ The red lines on the map represent railways.
▪ There is no doubt that this new type of tyre represents a major advance in road safety.
▪ Trade Unions representing ambulance workers yesterday agreed to accept a 5% pay increase.
▪ Who is representing the defendant?
▪ Wilson was represented in court by a top criminal lawyer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between them, Ickes and Morris represent the uneasy coalition of the Democratic base and centrists that Clinton requires for victory.
▪ I wanted to spend my whole life representing these guys.
▪ It represents one of his assignations.
▪ None of the other defendants are represented yet, Singh said.
▪ Over the course of the preoperational stage, children increasingly attempt to represent things through drawings and their efforts become more realistic.
▪ This approach stems from a strongly held belief that voluntary action represents a major force for positive environmental change.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Represent

Represent \Rep`re*sent"\ (r?p`r?-z?nt"), v. t. [F. repr['e]senter, L. repraesentare, repraesentatum; pref. re- re- + preesentare to place before, present. See Present, v. t.]

  1. 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.

    Before him burn Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing The heavenly fires.
    --Milton.

  2. To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.

  3. To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

    He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand.
    --Robertson.

    This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate.
    --Addison.

  6. To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.

  7. To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.

    Among these. Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things Which he five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes.
    --Milton.

  8. (Metaph.) 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 power of evoking out of unconsciousness one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representing in consciousness what is thus evoked . . . This representative Faculty is Imagination or Phantasy.
    --Sir. W. Hamilton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
represent

late 14c., "to bring to mind by description," also "to symbolize, serve as a sign or symbol of; serve as the type or embodiment of;" from Old French representer "present, show, portray" (12c.), from Latin repraesentare "make present, set in view, show, exhibit, display," from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + praesentare "to present," literally "to place before" (see present (v.)). Legislative sense is attested from 1650s. Related: Represented; representing.

Wiktionary
represent

vb. 1 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. 2 To portray by pictorial or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like. 3 To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet. 4 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. 5 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. 6 To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things. 7 To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present. 8 To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).

WordNet
represent

  1. v. take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin" [syn: stand for, correspond]

  2. express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?" [syn: typify, symbolize, symbolise, stand for]

  3. be representative or typical for; "This period is represented by Beethoven"

  4. 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; "I represent the silent majority"; "This actor is a spokesperson for the National Rifle Association"

  5. serve as a means of expressing something; "The flower represents a young girl"

  6. be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue" [syn: exemplify]

  7. form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, make up, comprise, be]

  8. be the defense counsel for someone in a trial; "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant" [syn: defend] [ant: prosecute]

  9. create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" [syn: interpret]

  10. play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master" [syn: act, play]

  11. perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" [syn: stage, present]

  12. describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality; "He represented this book as an example of the Russian 19th century novel"

  13. point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance; "our parents represented to us the need for more caution"

  14. bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason" [syn: present, lay out]

  15. to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) [syn: map]

Wikipedia
Represent

Represent can refer to:

  • Represent (Fat Joe album), a 1993 album by Fat Joe
  • Represent (Compton's Most Wanted album), a 2000 album by Compton's Most Wanted
  • Represent, a 1994 album by DJ Magic Mike
  • "Represent" (song), a song by Nas
  • "Represent", a 2009 song by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
  • "Represent", a 2010 single by Weezer released as an "unofficial anthem" for the United States men's national soccer team
Represent (Fat Joe album)

Represent is the debut studio album by American rapper Fat Joe, then known as Fat Joe da Gangsta. The album's lead single " Flow Joe" peaked number 82 on the Billboard 100 by late 1993. In mid-1994, he released his second single "Watch The Sound" followed by "The Shit Is Real", featuring a remix by DJ Premier, which would appear on Joe's second album.

Represent (Compton's Most Wanted album)

Represent is the fourth album by Comptons Most Wanted, their first since Music to Driveby in 1992. It included the singles, "This is Compton 2000" and "Then U Gone". In 2007, MC Eiht re-released the album in the name, Representin'. The Cover art pays tribute to the N.W.A album Straight Outta Compton

Usage examples of "represent".

Crispus, the eldest son of Constantine, and the presumptive heir of the empire, is represented by impartial historians as an amiable and accomplished youth.

The SEC was already investigating one accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, which represented both Waste Management and Sunbeam, to determine how things had gone astray.

Furious at the cancellation of a tour which had taken a great deal of arranging and represented the first time in eight months of the war that a foreign officer had been able to get accredited to a unit in the field, Stilwell offered every kind of excuse almost to the point of insubordination to avoid going to Lanchow.

On November 9th delegates of eight independent unions in different industries, representing something like 250,000 workers, met in New York City and took the first steps for an affiliation with the I.

The degree of my aliveness is represented by a wave function which contains probabilities of life and death.

Petitions having been presented by the cities of Bristol and New-Sarum, alleging, that since the laws prohibiting the making of low wines and spirits from grain, meal, and flour, had been in force, the commonalty appeared more sober, healthy, and industrious: representing the ill consequences which they apprehended would attend the repeal of these laws, and therefore praying their continuance.

The sojourn of Proserpine and also of Adonis, during six months of each year in the upper world, abode of light, and six months in the lower or abode of darkness, allegorically represented the same division of the Universe.

You have been made, to some extent, familiar with their personifications as Heroes suffering or triumphant, or as personal Gods or Goddesses, with human characteristics and passions, and with the multitude of legends and fables that do but allegorically represent their risings and settings, their courses, their conjunctions and oppositions, their domiciles and places of exaltation.

That is a sad and true allegory which represents the companions of Ulysses changed by the enchantments of Circe into swine.

In all, as we learn from Julius Firmicus, they represented by allegory the phenomena of nature, and the succession of physical facts, under the veil of a marvellous history.

River Iris, rises on either side in the form of an amphitheatre, and represents on a smaller scale the image of Bagdad.

Junk Moon had crystallized, successors had to be chosen, and fresh scientists were arriving daily, representing any discipline that might shine light on Amphora and how to destroy it.

The second impediment is represented by the numerous theoretical positions that see no alternative to the present form of rule except a blind anarchic other and that thus partake in a mysticism of the limit.

She represents the idea of Anarchism as framed by Josiah Warrn, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Tolstoy.

It represents the erotic, libidinal, anarchistic, and subjective values worshiped by Hagbard Celine and our friends in the Legion of Dynamic Discord.