Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
636. burn into memory; carve in stone. Adv. on record. Phr. exegi
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monumentum aere perennium [Lat][obs3][Horace]; "read their history in a
nation's eyes" [Gray]; "records that defy the tooth of time" [Young].
#552. [Suppression of sign.] Obliteration.—N. obliteration;
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erasure, rasure[obs3]; cancel, cancellation; circumduction[obs3];
deletion,
blot; tabula rasa[Lat]; effacement, extinction.
V. efface, obliterate, erase, raze|!, rase[obs3], expunge, cancel;
blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash
out,
sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible;
draw
the pen through, apply the sponge.
be effaced &c.; leave no trace &c. 550; "leave not a rack behind."
Adj. obliterated &c. v.; out of print; printless[obs3]; leaving no
trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
Int. dele; out with it!
Phr. delenda est Carthago [Lat][Cato].
#553. Recorder.—N. recorder, notary, clerk; registrar,
registrary[obs3], register; prothonotary[Law]; amanuensis, secretary,
scribe, babu[obs3], remembrancer[obs3], bookkeeper, custos
rotulorum[Lat], Master of the Rolls. annalist; historian,
historiographer; chronicler, journalist; biographer &c. (narrator) 594;
antiquary &c. (antiquity) 122; memorialist[obs3]; interviewer.
#554. Representation.—N. representation, representment[obs3];
imitation &c. 19; illustration, delineation, depictment[obs3]; imagery,
portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting
&c. 556; sculpture &c. 557; engraving &c. 558; photography,
cinematography; radiography, autoradiography[Bioch],
fluorography[Chem], sciagraphy[obs3]. personation, personification;
impersonation; drama &c. 599. picture, photo, photograph,
daguerreotype, snapshot; X-ray photo; movie film, movie; tracing,
scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics,
televideo, closed-circuit TV. copy &c. 21; drawing, sketch, draught,
draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme. image, likeness, icon, portrait,
striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile.
figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet[obs3], manikin,
lay-figure, model, mammet[obs3], marionette, fantoccini[obs3], waxwork,
bust; statue, statuette. ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph
[obs3],kanji[Jap]; diagram, monogram. map, plan, chart, ground plan,
projection, elevation (plan) 626. ichnography[obs3], cartography;
atlas; outline, scheme; view &c. (painting) 556; radiograph,
scotograph[obs3], sciagraph[obs3]; spectrogram, heliogram[obs3]. V.
represent, delineate; depict, depicture[obs3]; portray; take a
likeness, catch a likeness &c. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype;
snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth;
describe &c. 594; trace, copy; mold. dress up; illustrate, symbolize.
paint &c. 556; carve &c. 557; engrave &c. 558. personate, personify;
impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act; play &c. (drama) 599;
mimic &c. (imitate) 19; hold the mirror up to nature. Adj. represent,
representing &c. v., representative; *illustrative; represented &c. v.;
imitative, figurative; iconic. like &c. 17; graphic &c. (descriptive)
594; cinquecento quattrocento[Fr][obs3], trecento[obs3].
#555. Misrepresentation.—N. misrepresentation, distortion,
caricatura|, exaggeration; daubing &c. v.; bad likeness, daub, sign
painting; scratch, caricature; anamorphosis[obs3]; burlesque,
falsification, misstatement; parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty. V.
misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub;
burlesque, parody, travesty. Adj. misrepresented &c. v.
#556. Painting.—N. painting; depicting; drawing &c. v.; design;
perspective, sciagraphy[obs3], skiagraphy[obs3]; chiaroscuro &c.
(light) 420 composition; treatment. historical painting, portrait
painting, miniature painting; landscape painting, marine painting;
still life, flower painting, scene painting; scenography[obs3]. school,
style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture; ornamental art
&c. 847. monochrome, polychrome; grisaille[Fr]. pallet, palette; easel;
brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel;
paint &c. (coloring matter) 428; watercolor, body color, oil color;
oils, oil paint; varnish &c. 356a, priming; gouache, tempera,
distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting; mosaic;
tapestry. photography, heliography, color photography; sun painting;
graphics, computer graphics. picture, painting, piece[Fr], tableau,
canvas; oil painting &c.; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet
picture, draught, draft; pencil &c. drawing, water color drawing,
etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study. photograph,
color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph;
daguerreotype, talbotype[obs3], calotype[obs3], heliotype[obs3];
negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print; enlargement,
reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo. technicolor,
Kodachrome, Ektachrome; Polaroid. portrait &c. (representation) 554;
whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade,
silhouette; profile. landscape, seapiece[obs3]; view, scene, prospect;
panorama, diorama; still life. picture gallery, exhibit; studio,
atelier; pinacotheca[obs3]. V. paint, design, limn draw, sketch,
pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up;
color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in pencil &c. n.; paint in oils
&c. n.; stencil; depict &c. (represent) 554. Adj. painted &c. v.;
pictorial, graphic, picturesque. pencil, oil &c. n. Adv. in pencil &c.
n. Phr. fecit[Lat], delineavit[Lat]; mutum est pictura poema[Lat].
#557. Sculpture.—N. sculpture, insculpture| [obs3]; carving &c. v.;
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statuary.
high relief, low relief, bas relief[Fr]; relief; relieve;
bassorilievo[obs3], altorilievo[obs3], mezzorilievo[obs3]; intaglio,
anaglyph[obs3]; medal, medallion; cameo.
marble, bronze, terra cotta[Sp], papier-mache; ceramic ware,
pottery,
porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon,
satsuma.
statue.&c. (image) 554; cast &c (copy) 21; glyptotheca[obs3].
V. sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; *cast.
Adj. sculptured &c, v. in relief, anaglyptic[obs3],
ceroplastic[obs3],
ceramic; parian[obs3]; marble &c. n.; xanthian[obs3].
#558. Engraving.—N. engraving, chalcography[obs3]; line engraving,
mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point,
bur; etching, aquatinta[obs3]; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate
engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography,
lignography[obs3], glyptography[obs3], cerography[obs3], lithography,
chromolithography[obs3], photolithography, zincography[obs3],
glyphography, xylograph, lignograph[obs3], glyptograph[obs3],
cerograph[obs3], lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph,
zincograph[obs3], glyphograph[obs3], holograph. impression, print,
engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint,
aquatint, lithotint[obs3]; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype[obs3],
autotype[obs3], heliotype[obs3]. graver, burin[obs3], etching point,
style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp. printing;
plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing[obs3], color
printing, lithographic printing; type printing &c. 591; three-color
process. illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette,
initial letter, cul de lampe[Fr], tailpiece. [person who inscribes on
stone] lapidary, lapidarian. V. engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch;
bite, bite in; lithograph &c., n.; print. Adj. insculptured[obs3];
engraved &c. v.. [of inscriptions on stone] lapidary. Phr.
sculpsit[Lat], imprimit[Lat].
#559. Artist.—N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher,
designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman, draughtsman;
copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist.
historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter,
portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign
painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles[obs3]; sculptor, carver,
chaser, modeler, figuriste[obs3], statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal
Academician. photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera
technician, camera buff; wildlife photographer. Phr. photo safari;
"with gun and camera"
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