What does Portraying mean?

Definitions for Portraying
por·tray·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayalnoun

    a representation by picture or portraiture

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  1. portraying

    Portraying refers to the act of describing, representing, showing or creating a likeness of something or someone either through writing, art, media, or performance. It essentially involves creating an image or characterization that communicates certain features, characteristics, or qualities. It can also refer to the act of playing a role or character in a theatrical performance or film.

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  1. Portraying

    of Portray

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Portraying in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Portraying in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Portraying in a Sentence

  1. Ed Sealover:

    We stand behind the Bud Light transparency campaign and have no plans to change the advertising. Brendan Whitworth, chief of U.S. sales for parent company Anheuser-Busch, said roughly 40 percent of consumers want some kind of additional transparency on products they consume, which is a key data point for the company. The epic joust is far from over. MillerCoors just unleashed a fresh assault of its own. We launched new ads from Miller Lite that are light hearted way to poke fun at the fact that Bud Light is living in fantasy world and in real world, more taste is what matters, says Adam Collins, vice president of communications for MillerCoors. The ads consist of medieval scenes with actors portraying thefamous Bud Light knightandprisoners, walking off the commercial set to crack open a Miller Lite. Beer book author and Denver Business Journal Reporter Ed Sealover, said beer sales have been suffering. At this point, when you continue to lose sales, you need to peck at your competition because youre not taking those sales away from craft breweries right now, he said. Youre going to have to take it away from people who compete in the same market as you.

  2. Marc Abraham:

    I think he had a profound sadness in him, tom [Hiddleston, the actor portraying Williams] puts across that impending sense of doom. Hank felt there was something bad around the corner.

  3. Anne Hathaway:

    It’s an obvious thing, you win an Oscar and you’re supposed to be happy. I didn’t feel that way. I felt wrong that I was standing there in a gown that cost more than some people are going to see in their lifetime, and winning an award for portraying pain that still felt very much a part of our collective experience as human beings, i tried to pretend that I was happy and I got called out on it, big time. That’s the truth and that’s what happened.

  4. Maria Repnikova:

    Stories that are critical of Russia or are portraying Russia in an unfavorable manner are generally censored, as a result of that, it is expedient to use Russian state media sources because they're the ones portraying the( Ukraine) conflict with a more favorable eye or view from the Russian perspective.

  5. Rosalind Wiseman:

    Mainstream media is portraying girls at younger ages who are mimicking the worst of obnoxious, stereotypical girl behavior ... rolling eyes, moving the hips around, being catty, so what girls are getting is that by 8 or 9, this is sort of a 'normal' way to act.

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