Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS IV DIVISION II SECTION III. 1. NATURAL MEANS


550. Indication -- N. indication; symbolism, symbolization; semiology, semiotics, semeiology † , semeiotics † ; Zeitgeist.

551. Record -- N. trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix; footstep, footmark † , footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste † .

552. [Suppression of sign.] Obliteration -- N. obliteration; erasure, rasure † ; cancel, cancellation; circumduction † ; deletion, blot; tabula rasa [Lat.] ; effacement, extinction.

553. Recorder -- N. recorder, notary, clerk; registrar, registrary † , register; prothonotary [Law] ; amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu † , remembrancer † , bookkeeper, custos rotulorum [Lat.] , Master of the Rolls.

554. Representation -- N. representation, representment † ; imitation &c 19; illustration, delineation, depictment † ; 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 † .

555. Misrepresentation -- N. misrepresentation, distortion, caricatura † , exaggeration; daubing &c v.; bad likeness, daub, sign painting; scratch, caricature; anamorphosis † ; burlesque, falsification, misstatement; parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty.

556. Painting -- N. painting; depicting; drawing &c v.; design; perspective, sciagraphy † , skiagraphy † ; chiaroscuro &c (light) 420; composition; treatment.

557. Sculpture -- N. sculpture, insculpture † ; carving &c v.; statuary.

558. Engraving -- N. engraving, chalcography † ; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta † ; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography † , glyptography † , cerography † , lithography, chromolithography † , photolithography, zincography † , glyphography, xylograph, lignograph † , glyptograph † , cerograph † , lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph † , glyphograph † , holograph.

559. Artist -- N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman, draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist.