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Meaning of 'picture' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Picture [ n.]
- The art of painting; representation by painting.
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
- An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
2 . Picture [ v. t.]
- To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.

Meaning of 'picture' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . picture [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Example in sentence:
  • a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them;
  • they showed us the pictures of their wedding
Meaning (2):
- graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
Example in sentence:
  • a small painting by Picasso;
  • he bought the painting as an investment;
  • his pictures hang in the Louvre
Meaning (3):
- a clear and telling mental image
Example in sentence:
  • he described his mental picture of his assailant;
  • he had no clear picture of himself or his world;
  • the events left a permanent impression in his mind
Meaning (4):
- a typical example of some state or quality
Example in sentence:
  • she was the picture of despair;
  • the very picture of a modern general
Meaning (5):
- a graphic or vivid verbal description
Example in sentence:
  • the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland;
  • the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters;
  • too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures
Meaning (6):
- illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
Example in sentence:
  • the dictionary had many pictures
Meaning (7):
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
Example in sentence:
  • the film was shot on location;
  • they went to a movie every Saturday night
Meaning (8):
- a situation treated as an observable object
Example in sentence:
  • the political picture is favorable;
  • the religious scene in England has changed in the last century
Meaning (9):
- the visible part of a television transmission
Example in sentence:
  • they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone
10 . picture [ v]
Meaning (10):
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Example in sentence:
  • I can see a risk in this strategy;
  • I can see what will happen;
  • I can't see him on horseback!
Meaning (11):
- show in, or as in, a picture
Example in sentence:
  • the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting;
  • This scene depicts country life

Nearby Words:

pic pica picador picamar picapare picard picaresque picariae picarian picaroon

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