Слово "represent". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The physical book itself represents both a technological advance

But to people representing an important firm or a country which is not friendly but must be influenced--to such people they give much.

the other one to represent design.

Though she seldom gave advice and never interfered, yet she represented to the uneasy consciences of the village the Deity personified.

“Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master.

Ha! That represents the last time that the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy.”

The dark blue dress, fitting without a wrinkle, the hat with its jaunty black feather, the but-slightly-soiled gloves—all representing self-denial, even of food itself—were vastly becoming.

Oh, it wasn’t that he felt anything toward Cortman. It wasn’t even that Cortman represented a part of the past.

He concluded with representing to her the strength of that attachment which, in spite of all his endeavours, he had found impossible to conquer; and with expressing his hope that it would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand.