What's the difference between misrepresentation and representative?

Misrepresentation


Definition:

  • (n.) Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
  • (2) Various kinds of false reports are defined, described, and grouped according to type: misunderstandings, misreporting, distortion through illness, distortion by design, professional error, misrepresentation, and a grouping of less common instances.
  • (3) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
  • (4) And they have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.” On Monday the Russian foreign ministry said that US-Russian relations are enduring a difficult period “because of the targeted unfriendly actions of Washington”.
  • (5) Its campaign of vilification and deliberate misrepresentation of benefit spending has been effective, blaming the poor, not pay structures.
  • (6) HP said it had uncovered "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations" at Autonomy.
  • (7) Given, for example, that over half of them have identified as devout, it is hard to imagine what would have persuaded the 11 peers behind an anti-Falconer paper, An Analysis of the Assisted Dying Bill , to look kindly upon its provisions, but the document constructs an ostensibly faith-free, "clear-thinking" case against, which is nonetheless replete with routine frighteners and selective misrepresentation.
  • (8) The scaremongering, dissembling and misrepresentation of the no campaign will be ramped up as we approach polling day."
  • (9) Does he feel the cuddly, avuncular Alan Bennett is a misrepresentation?
  • (10) There is also the problematic fact that postcolonial theory has, in its account of the colonial encounter, focused almost exclusively on the matter of imperial misrepresentation: it largely ignores what non-western cultures were up to in the last two centuries, unless they were seen to be actively engaged in rebutting the coloniser.
  • (11) I implore the media to temper further one-sided misrepresentations about this crucial matter that affects the wellbeing of the general public.
  • (12) Misrepresentations of social work Maris Stratulis , England manager, British Association of Social Workers : "Scaremongering is alienating a lot of the people that social workers are trying to work with.
  • (13) Any company that makes misrepresentations to consumers about its privacy and security practices risks FTC action.” A number of “anonymous” apps including Whisper and Secret have been launched recently promising the ability to post unidentified messages.
  • (14) But the Philippines-based OFW (Overseas Foreign Workers) Watch , which supports Filipino migrant workers, said physical abuse, delayed and refused salaries, the misrepresentation of employers and contracts and passport confiscations were common issues in Qatar.
  • (15) HP called on the US and British authorities to investigate what it called "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy" before the acquisition.
  • (16) Premature analysis may result in inaccurate estimation of tumor response and adverse effects as well as misrepresentation of survival.
  • (17) Her parents told the Austin American-Statesman that this was a misrepresentation of why she was there, while the facility, Heartlight Ministries, issued a statement five days after the page’s creation denying that they provide conversion treatments or held Sarah against her will, adding that she had left.
  • (18) The actor said the Mail on Sunday's report about his Newsnight comments were an "outrageous misrepresentation ... to get their revenge for the fact I was criticising their kind of journalism".
  • (19) The Institute for Fiscal Studies played a blinder, as usual, pointing out the Treasury's sleights of hand and misrepresentations.
  • (20) To call it anti-Muslim is a gross misrepresentation and to say that I'm responsible for all this emotion, again a gross misrepresentation."

Representative


Definition:

  • (a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
  • (a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
  • (a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
  • (a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
  • (a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
  • (a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
  • (n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
  • (n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
  • (n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
  • (n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
  • (n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
  • (2) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (3) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
  • (4) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (6) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (7) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (8) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
  • (9) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (10) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (11) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
  • (12) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
  • (13) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
  • (14) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (15) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (16) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
  • (17) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
  • (18) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
  • (19) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
  • (20) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)