单词	caricature
释义	caricature1 nouncaricature2 verb caricaturecar‧i‧ca‧ture1 /ˈkærɪkətʃʊə $ -tʃʊr/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINcaricature1 Origin: 1700-1800 French, Italian caricatura, from caricare ‘to load, make seem larger, worse, etc.’, from Late Latin carricare; ➔ CHARGE2 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Klein began his career by drawing caricatures of local politicians in the paper. Politicians are used to having caricatures of themselves printed in newspapers. The young man looked like a caricature of a South American polo player. We had our caricatures drawn by a street artist while we were on vacation in Turkey. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But whereas caricature depends on paring down character to exaggerated essentials, acting conveys shades, nuances and inconsistencies. It's a sort of caricature of a machine. Now she added quick caricatures and portraits to her entertainments at Hunnewell parties. The caricature is crude, but recognisable. Their personalities are easily exaggerated, their foibles ripe for caricature or psychotherapy. Unfortunately, now four years later our original leader has become a cartoon caricature. Unfortunately, popular folklore eventually romanticized the leader and his tribe, reducing them almost to comic book caricatures. Yet all these caricatures are historically misplaced. Thesaurus THESAURUS► picture shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like: · a picture of a horse· He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died. ► drawing a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc: · We had to do a drawing of a sunflower. ► sketch a picture that is drawn quickly: · I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted. ► painting a picture made using paint: · The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art.· Picasso did several paintings of her. ► portrait a picture of a person: · The portrait was painted by Rembrandt. ► landscape a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains: · Constable painted mainly landscapes. ► cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke: · A cartoon in the New York Times showed the president talking to Osama Bin Laden. ► comic strip a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story: · Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown. ► caricature a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way: · He is famous for his caricatures of politicians. ► illustration a picture in a book: · The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour. ► poster a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration: · old movie posters· There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall. ► print a picture that is usually produced on a printing press, and is one of a series of copies of the same picture: · a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon ► image a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you: · He produced some memorable images.· a beautiful image· Some of the images are deeply disturbing. ► artwork pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine: · We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers. Longman Language Activatora humorous drawing► cartoon a humorous drawing, especially in a newspaper or a magazine, often with a joke written under it: · The cartoon shows a group of elephants trying to get into a phone-box.· a satirical cartoon that appears in the Washington Post ► caricature a humorous drawing that makes certain parts of people's faces or bodies seem larger or stranger than they really are, in order to make them look funny: · We had our caricatures drawn by a street artist while we were on vacation in Turkey.caricature of: · Politicians are used to having caricatures of themselves printed in newspapers. WORD SETS► Literature acrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun 1[countable] a funny drawing of someone that makes them look sillycaricature of caricatures of politicians2[countable] a description of someone or something that is only partly true and makes them seem sillycaricature of The report presents a caricature of the true situation.3[uncountable] the activity of drawing or writing caricatures caricature1 nouncaricature2 verb caricaturecaricature2 verb [transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE caricature Simple Form Present I, you, we, they caricature he, she, it caricatures Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they caricatured Present perfect I, you, we, they have caricatured he, she, it has caricatured Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had caricatured Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will caricature Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have caricatured Continuous Form Present I am caricaturing he, she, it is caricaturing you, we, they are caricaturing Past I, he, she, it was caricaturing you, we, they were caricaturing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been caricaturing he, she, it has been caricaturing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been caricaturing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be caricaturing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been caricaturing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Many celebrity customers have been caricatured and hung on the restaurant's walls. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And even if there is a deal, Mr Clinton will try to caricature Republican reforms as monsters from the deep. And we allowed ourselves to be caricatured by our opponents. As such its history can be caricatured as having had three stages. Economic gurus tend to think of themselves as hard scientists, while caricaturing educators as limp, at best. It is less understandable when the union is caricatured in more seriously researched publications. word sets WORD SETS► Visual abstract, adjectiveafter, prepositionArt Deco, nounart gallery, nounartist, nounArt Nouveau, nounbackground, nouncalligraphy, nouncaricature, nouncaricature, verbcaricaturist, nouncartoon, nouncarving, nounceramics, nounchalk, nouncharcoal, nounchase, verbclip art, nouncomposition, nounconceptual art, nouncontrast, nouncrayon, nouncrayon, verbcutout, noundecal, noundimension, noundoodle, verbdraughtsman, noundrawing, nounengrave, verbengraving, nounexhibit, nounfigurative, adjectivefigure, nounfreehand, adjectivegallery, noungilt, noungilt, adjectivegraphic, adjectivegraphic design, noungraphics, nouniconography, nounillustrate, verbillustration, nounink, nounink, verbinset, verbintaglio, nounlacquer, nounlacquer, verblaser, nounlife-size, adjectivelight show, nounlinocut, nounmanikin, nounmezzotint, nounmobile, nounmodel, nounmodel, verbmodernism, nounmontage, nounmosaic, nounmount, verbmural, nounmuseum, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectiveneedlepoint, nounnude, nounobjet d'art, nounochre, nounold master, nounop art, nounormolu, nounornamentation, nounoutline, verbpanorama, nounpantograph, nounpastel, nounpastel, adjectiveperspective, nounpicture, nounpicture, verbplasticity, nounpop art, nounportfolio, nounpose, verbpose, nounprimary colour, nounprint, verbprint, nounrelief, nounrepresentational, adjectiverestrained, adjectiveretro, nounretrospective, nounrubbing, nounself-portrait, nounshade, nounshade, verbsilk screen, adjectivesilversmith, nounsitter, nounsketch, nounsketch, verbsketchpad, nounson et lumière, nounstudy, nounstylized, adjectivesuperimpose, verbsymbol, nountattoo, nountattoo, verbtessellated, adjectivetransfer, nounturpentine, nounvanishing point, nounvibrant, adjectiveview, nounvisual aid, nounvisual arts, nounwoodcarving, nounwoodcut, noun to draw or describe someone or something in a way that makes them seem sillycaricature somebody/something as something Scientists are often caricatured as absent-minded professors.
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