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- 1 A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
"Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft."
- 2 graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface wordnet
- 3 An image; a representation as in the imagination.
"My eyes make pictures when they are shut."
- 4 a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format wordnet
- 5 A painting.
"There was a picture hanging above the fireplace."
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- 6 a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface wordnet
- 7 A photograph.
"I took a picture of the church."
- 8 a typical example of some state or quality wordnet
- 9 A motion picture. India, dated
"Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture."
- 10 a clear and telling mental image wordnet
- 11 ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment). in-plural, informal
"Let's go to the pictures."
- 12 the visible part of a television transmission wordnet
- 13 A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
"She's the very picture of health."
- 14 a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement wordnet
- 15 An attractive sight.
"The garden is a real picture at this time of year."
- 16 illustrations used to decorate or explain a text wordnet
- 17 The art of painting; representation by painting.
"any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture"
- 18 a graphic or vivid verbal description wordnet
- 19 A figure; a model.
"the young king's picture[…]in virgin wax"
- 20 a situation treated as an observable object wordnet
- 21 Situation.
"The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good."
- 22 A sample of an illegal drug. Multicultural-London-English
"If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture."
- 23 A format string in the COBOL programming language.
"The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution."
- 1 To represent in or with a picture. transitive
"while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut."
- 2 imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind wordnet
- 3 To imagine or envision. transitive
"Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies"
- 4 show in, or as in, a picture wordnet
- 5 To depict or describe vividly. transitive
"I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose."
Etymology
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.
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