Typify
['tɪpɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol; 'What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?'.
(verb.) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; 'The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition'.
Inputed by Jon--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.
Typed by Lillian
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:depose, swear, declare, witness, protest, affirm, verify, attest, confirm,certify, asseverate
ANT:Misdeclare, misaffirm, misdepose, mistestify, falsify
SYN:Prefigure, adumbrate, predelineate, prerepresent, foreshow, predemonstrate,foreshadow
ANT:Verify, fulfill, realize
Typed by Ferris
Examples
- I sound the depths of my heart, and try in vain to draw thence the expressions that can typify my love for these remnants of my race. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The shorter, more frequent waves of the ocean would typify the short, rapid waves which leave the sun, and which on reaching us are interpreted as light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was the rush and roar of rain that he typified, and it stopped him, for no voice could be heard in it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Miss Gertrude Farish, in fact, typified the mediocre and the ineffectual. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Edited by Ethelred