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Prototaxites - Morphology
... Infilled casts which may represent the spaces formerly occupied by "roots" of Prototaxites are common in early Devonian strata ... It is probable that the preserved "trunks" represent the fruiting body, or "sporophore", of a fungus, which would have been fuelled by a mycelium, a net of dispersed filaments ("hyphae") ... early plant Nematothallus has led to suggestions that the latter may represent leaves of Prototaxites ...
Demographics Of British Bangladeshis - Religion
2001) Islam 92.48% British Bangladeshi Muslims represent 16.35% of the British Muslim community and 0.46% of the UK population 259,712 Not Stated 5.83% 0.37% of the total number of non-correspondents and 0.03 ...
Hal Kant - Music Business
... guys should have an attorney, too" and proceeded to help represent a series of artists including The Association, Captain Beefheart, Hot Tuna, Janis Joplin, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Sonny ... He turned down an opportunity to represent The Doors after the group demanded that he only represent them ...
Chi Capricorni - Chinese Name
... meaning Twelve States, refers to an asterism which is represent twelve ancient states in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, consisting of χ Capricorni, φ Capricorni ... Consequently, χ Capricorni itself is represent the state Qi (齊), together with 112 Herculis in Left Wall of Heavenly Market Enclosure (asterism) ... Capricorni, together with φ Capricorni, were represent the state Wei (魏) ...
Rugoconites
... the very similar Paleophragmodictya, and may represent the channels of the gastrovascular system (Fedonkin Cope 1985) ... Speculation that they may represent sponges (Gehling 1996) is not accepted by Sepkoski et al ... have been reported in clusters this may represent a social/colonial way of life, or simply accumulation by the action of currents, sea-floor processes, or possibly preservational conditions (Droser 2007) ...

More definitions of "represent":

  • (verb): Serve as a means of expressing something.
    Example: "The flower represents a young girl"
  • (verb): Be characteristic of.
    Synonyms: exemplify
  • (verb): Point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance.
    Example: "Our parents represented to us the need for more caution"
  • (verb): Create an image or likeness of.
    Synonyms: interpret
  • (verb): Be representative or typical for.
    Example: "This period is represented by Beethoven"
  • (verb): Be the defense counsel for someone in a trial.
    Example: "Ms. Smith will represent the defendant"
    Synonyms: defend
  • (verb): 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.
    Example: "I represent the silent majority"; "This actor is a spokesperson for the National Rifle Association"
  • (verb): Describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality.
    Example: "He represented this book as an example of the Russian 19th century novel"
  • (verb): Perform (a play), especially on a stage.
    Synonyms: stage, present
  • (verb): Play a role or part.
    Synonyms: act, play
  • (verb): Bring forward and present to the mind.
    Example: "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"
    Synonyms: present, lay out
  • (verb): To establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets).
    Synonyms: map

Famous quotes containing the word represent:

    “People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent “the past” and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “The trouble is that the expression ‘material thing’ is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for ‘sense-datum’; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he ‘perceives.’”
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)

    “What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)