depictee
depictee noun: one who, or that which, is depicted.
Noun
depictee (plural depictees)
- One who, or that which, is depicted.
- One of the nodes in a depiction is identified as the depictee; depictions describe their depictee in terms of their other nodes, which are known as depicters.1977, IJCAI-77: 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence-1977: Proceedings of the Conference, page 99
- In the depiction D-HUMAN, N-ARM acts as a depicter; at the same time, in D-ARM, N-ARM is the depictee—the subject of the depiction.1979, N. V. Findler, editor, Associative Networks: Representation and Use of Knowledge by Computers, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 24
- Antonyms:
- depicter
Examples of depictee in a sentence
- The depictee was seen dimly in the truck but somewhat more clearly outside the house, standing and stooping and bending.1988, West’s South Eastern Reporter, page 147, column 1:
- Video, lay persons familiar with depictee (Conn.2004, The Criminal Law Reporter, volume 75, Bureau of National Affairs, page 9:
- This can be controlled for by using a proper name as the depictee.2013, David Adger, A Syntax of Substance (Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Sixty-Four), Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page...
- Yet the morbid dimension of the painting is best understood as an intimation and not a keen signifier of the actual death of the depictee.2016, Nathaniel Wallace, Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN...
Antonyms of depictee
Forms of depictee
| plural | depictees |
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Origin of depictee
From depict + -ee.
Questions about depictee
- What does depictee mean?
- Depictee means one who, or that which, is depicted.
- How do you use depictee in a sentence?
- The depictee was seen dimly in the truck but somewhat more clearly outside the house, standing and stooping and bending.
- What part of speech is depictee?
- Depictee is a noun.
- What is the plural of depictee?
- The plural of depictee is depictees.
Words near depictee in the dictionary
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