drawing vs depiction

depiction vs drawing

drawing and depiction both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drawing	Yes	No	No	No
depiction	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, depiction is a hyponym of drawing; that is, depiction is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than drawing:

drawing: a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
depiction: a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects

Other hyponyms of drawing include charcoal, delineation, limning, line drawing, diagram, mechanical drawing, pen-and-ink, architectural plan, plan, rendering, doodle, scrabble, scribble, silhouette, silverpoint, sketch, study, stick figure, trace, tracing.

drawing (noun)	depiction (noun)
the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams	representation by drawing or painting etc
act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source	a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots	a representation by picture or portraiture
the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling	a graphic or vivid verbal description
a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

Difference between drawing and depiction

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.