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# represent

«represent» in Mova's school dictionary: **To stand for or be a sign or symbol of something: a red…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (represent, represents, represented, representing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stand for or be a sign or symbol of something: a red cross represents first aid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#m1)

2) To speak or act for a person or group: She represents our class on the council. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#m2)

3) To show or picture something in a drawing, model or chart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#m3)

4) To be the same as or amount to: this represents a big change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#m4)

5) To represent can also mean to act the part of someone in a play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, letters and symbols represent numbers (x represents the unknown), and bar charts represent data. In geography, a symbol on a map represents a church. In citizenship and sport, people represent their country. Phrases: represent your country, represent the data.

### examples

- On the map, a blue line represents a river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#x1)
- Let x represent the number of apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#x2)
- Each picture in the pictogram represents 5 children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#x3)
- She will represent Ireland at the Olympics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#x4)
- Draw a bar chart to represent the results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#x5)
- The dove represents peace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#x6)
- They shall represent the unwelcome wooer, whom the lady does not like. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: represented. Nouns: representation, representative. Maths: in a pictogram, if one symbol represents 5, then 4 symbols represent 20; half a symbol represents 2.5.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «represent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/represent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.