What's the difference between caricature and representation?

Caricature


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
  • (v. t.) A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.
  • (v. t.) To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (2) © Focus Features Where Dolly, a kind, pious, modest, anxious figure, the mother of five living and two dead children, belongs very much to the old Russia, Stiva Oblonsky, her husband, is recognisable as the caricature of a modern man.
  • (3) He is a “caricature machine politician” , Goldsmith has claimed, but also the proponent of “divisive and radical politics” .
  • (4) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
  • (5) One is the stubborn mystery of how a giant of its liberation movements, an intellectual who showed forgiveness and magnanimity years before Mandela emerged from jail, could turn into the living caricature of despotism.
  • (6) Last week he began that process in a New Statesman interview in which he said: "I'm caricatured as a tribalist.
  • (7) While caricatures of welfare dependents reign unchallenged, pressing practical questions about how poor people can make ends meet are ducked.
  • (8) He sometimes bordered on caricature, but always provided colour and verve.
  • (9) Here we examine a simple one-dimensional caricature of their model which exhibits similar linear behaviour and present a nonlinear analysis which shows the possibility of superposition of modes subject to appropriate parameter values and initial conditions.
  • (10) His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation.
  • (11) Morphological and immunohistochemical analyses showed that these tumors caricature the biology of the renewing epidermis: the presence of basal-like cells; differentiating cells; apoptotic cells; and keratinized horn pearls with an exaggerated or overabundant stem cell compartment as compared to the differentiated cell compartment.
  • (12) Tea Partyers were not the backward dimwits caricatured in the media.
  • (13) The caricature of the older person as slow, rambling and confused is a familiar stereotype, reinforced by a media that often focuses on perceived age-related failings in public figures such as Ronald Reagan, Menzies Campbell and, more recently, Rupert Murdoch.
  • (14) It is a complex picture – tough to caricature and tougher to address.
  • (15) If we think that the way we should conduct political debate is by caricaturing people we disagree with as Bennites, I think it is an absolutely hopeless way to conduct a political debate.
  • (16) A report outlining the plan, written by Blunkett, accuses the coalition of producing a system where the logical conclusion would be 20,000 autonomous schools and "an unmanageable Kafkaesque caricature freeing schools from everything except the secretary of state".
  • (17) But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature."
  • (18) The official Twitter account of Fillon’s party, Les Républicains , published a caricature of Macron depicting him as a hook-nosed banker in a top hat cutting a cigar with the communist symbol of the red sickle.
  • (19) The revolutionary volunteers have churned out caricatures of Gaddafi being throttled until money pops from his throat, and of him naked and alone on a desert island with a slogan that says he is with the only friend he has in the world.
  • (20) In his memoir, he recalls the extravagant nicknames of some of the locas and transvestites whom he frequented: like their cross-dressed bodies, their names were a sort of parodic translation of their caricatured identity.

Representation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
  • (n.) That which represents.
  • (n.) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.
  • (n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.
  • (n.) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.
  • (n.) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.
  • (n.) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
  • (n.) The state of being represented.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
  • (2) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (3) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
  • (4) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
  • (5) The predominant specific aberrations in gliomas were an over-representation of chromosome 7 (13 cases) and an under-representation of chromosome 10 (16 cases).
  • (6) The Fink-Heimer techniques were used to determine the neostriatal projections from cortical M1 and S1 physiologically identified representations of the forepaw.
  • (7) Electrophysiological methods were used to determine changes in the neural representation of the binocular visual field at the paired midbrain optic tecta and in the tectal projection of pairs of corresponding retinal loci at various developmental points between these ages.
  • (8) Additional research: Suzie Worroll, James Browning, Grace Nzita and Nicolas Niarchos How do you feel about the representation of women in British public life?
  • (9) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
  • (10) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
  • (11) The correlation is likely to reflect language representation.
  • (12) A second pattern of representation of body movements, the supplementary motor area (SMA), adjoined the rostromedial border of M-I.
  • (13) The shock death of the 65-year-old designer in Miami on Thursday has brought renewed focus on the chronic lack of female representation in the profession’s upper ranks in the UK.
  • (14) We compared only patterns of labeling resulting from injections into similar parts of the frequency representation in different fields to insure that observed differences in patterns of labeling did not simply reflect differences in the frequency representation at the injection sites.
  • (15) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
  • (16) Furthermore, the approach provides a nice graphical representation of the relationships between the PK-PD parameters and covariates.
  • (17) This white child had as his alter-ego, really as part of his self-representation, a black half of the self, personified as a black boy whom he fantasized to be his twin.
  • (18) Among the theoretical proposals put forward to account for the observed disorders, those relating to a disturbance of the action planning process and to that of the internal representation of context are compatible with the observed memory disorders.
  • (19) They also suggest that both the migration of cortical neurons on glia and the refinement of the mapping between the peripheral whisker field and its cortical representation may depend upon the distribution of substrate adhesion molecules.
  • (20) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.