portray

«portray» in Mova's school dictionary: to paint, draw or photograph them — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (portrays, portrayed, portraying)

meaning for a pupil

1) To portray someone is to paint, draw or photograph them. tree →

2) To portray someone is to show them in a story or on stage as a certain kind of person. tree →

3) To portray something is to describe it in words. tree →

sense in the lessons

a tale or author shows a hero, villain or place in a particular way

examples

• The painter portrayed the queen in gold and blue. tree →
• The book portrays the sea as cruel. tree →
• The actor portrays the wicked king on stage. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «portray» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.