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Picture   /pˈɪktʃər/   Listen
Picture

noun
1.
A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.  Synonyms: icon, ikon, image.  "A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
2.
Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface.  Synonym: painting.  "He bought the painting as an investment" , "His pictures hang in the Louvre"
3.
A clear and telling mental image.  Synonyms: impression, mental picture.  "He had no clear picture of himself or his world" , "The events left a permanent impression in his mind"
4.
A situation treated as an observable object.  Synonym: scene.  "The religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
5.
Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text.  Synonym: pictorial matter.
6.
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.  Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture show.  "The film was shot on location"
7.
The visible part of a television transmission.  Synonym: video.
8.
A graphic or vivid verbal description.  Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, word picture.  "The author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland" , "The pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
9.
A typical example of some state or quality.  "She was the picture of despair"
10.
A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material.  Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, pic.
verb
(past & past part. pictured; pres. part. picturing)
1.
Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.  Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize.  "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"
2.
Show in, or as in, a picture.  Synonyms: depict, render, show.  "The face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"



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"Picture" Quotes from Famous Books



... ponderous oaken bench, and upon this old Russell seated himself wearily. Here he sat, and as Harry completed his survey of the apartment, his eyes rested upon his unfortunate companion as he sat there, the picture of terror, despondency, and misery. Harry felt an involuntary pity for the man; and as his own flow of spirits was unfailing, he set himself to work to try ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... soon judge of your value by your adroitness, and you can make your own record!" smiled the strange woman waif. "Let me see how you would do this! I do not care to personally approach Mademoiselle Euphrosyne Delande, I would have a picture of the woman whom I seek—the lonely child whom I have hungered for long years to see! I do not ...
— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage
... doubter in Europe or America, nor even in the London Clubs! Yet each time I read the cunning article (I have less hair than when I ran away from Sandhurst that exciting July night and met you in the Strand!), and look upon the picture of the man, John Henry Smith, "before and after using," I admit the birth of an unreasonable belief that there may be something ...
— The Garden of Survival • Algernon Blackwood
... She will demand to be taken everywhere—to Paris continually, of course; to all the stock shrines of history's devotees; to palaces and prisons; to kings' tombs and queens' tombs; to cemeteries and picture- galleries, and royal hunting forests. My poor mother, having gone over most of this ground many times before, will perhaps not find the perambulation so exhilarating as will Caroline herself. I wish I could have gone with them. I would not have minded having my legs walked off to please Caroline. ...
— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy
... become arrogant and corrupt. All this helped to explain the strength of such revolts as that of the Liberal Republican movement of 1872. Nevertheless, during the greater part of the twenty-five years after the war, hosts of Republicans cherished such a picture as that drawn by Senator Hoar and Edward MacPherson, and it was that picture which held them within the party and made patriotism and Republicanism ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley


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