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noun

a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.

any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water.

a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day.

a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version.

a tableau, as in theatrical representation.

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motion picture.

pictures, Informal: Older Use. movies.

a person, thing, group, or scene regarded as resembling a work of pictorial art in beauty, fineness of appearance, etc.: She was a picture in her new blue dress.

the image or perfect likeness of someone else: He is the picture of his father.

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a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition: the picture of health.

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a situation or set of circumstances: the economic picture.

12.

the image on a computer monitor, the viewing screen of a television set, or a motion-picture screen.

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verb (used with object)

13.

to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing.

14.

to form a mental picture of; imagine: He couldn't picture himself doing such a thing.

15.

to depict in words; describe graphically: He pictured Rome so vividly that you half-believed you were there.

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to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin pictūra the act of painting, a painting, equivalent to pict(us) (past participle of pingere to paint) + -ūra -ure

Related forms

pic·tur·a·ble, adjective

pic·tur·a·ble·ness, noun

pic·tur·a·bly, adverb

pic·tur·er, noun

mis·pic·ture, verb (used with object), -tured, -tur·ing.

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self-pic·tured, adjective

un·pic·tured, adjective

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Can be confused: picture, pitcher.

Synonyms
13, 15. delineate, paint, draw, represent.

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Example Sentences

More than a thousand words, there are a thousand mysteries in a single, sweeping picture.

Picture a college student appealing for a higher grade in his professor's office.

Hogarth painted a full-length picture of the captain and asked fellow artists to donate their works.

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More than a thousand words, there are a thousand mysteries in a single, sweeping picture.

Picture a college student appealing for a higher grade in his professor's office.

Hogarth painted a full-length picture of the captain and asked fellow artists to donate their works.

Slideshows are nice if they don't need to reload the page every picture.

The color captured in the picture and its arrangement was eye engaging.

Create a headboard picture frame by using decorative molding from a home improvement store.

We kind of have to post this fake picture of the next-generation iPhone.

His lineup picture was set apart by a different background.

Parents and students need someone to break the numbers down for them to get a clear picture of how much they will have to spend.

It also contrasts well with the rather glum picture painted by the banks' main lobbying body in this report.

In it, an unfamiliar picture is placed on an easel and a person carefully scans the entire scene.

No, the picture of the week is not going to be of baby clouded leopards.

The best picture books are the ones in which the pictures and the words add up to something more than the sum of their parts.

But after inflation is taken into account, the picture looks worse.

Some users have posted pictures of themselves, and one seemingly serious journalist has posted a picture of her dog.

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture.

Impressed at first sight the lucky shot turns into a pretty good picture editing.

The vulgar plastic slabs being sold as digital picture frames remain too ugly and bulky for a civilized drawing room.

The picture is even starker when compared with fund raising before the recession.

They argue that the figures fail to give the full alarming picture.

The apparatus in the middle of the picture was designed to test the mental reactions of those under the influence of morphine.

But he says he can't bring himself to display the picture.

Picture a new way to personalize souvenir snapshots.

Share your photos, hear from speakers and learn about new techniques that may help you capture that picture perfect moment.

Most ultrasounds send sound waves through the body, but only use some of the signals to create a picture.

Nature is beautiful, and your picture is are amazing.

But while the new picture may answers some questions, it also creates a heap of new mysteries.

She doesn't seem too pleased to have her picture taken.

Today's picture of the day, a female downy woodpecker.

Looking at the picture that sparked his ordeal, he says that another man in his place might be angry, but he is not.

The skies in mine were not as brilliant, but the picture is awesome.

Turn a basic side table and a picture frame into a living-room accent worth remembering.

Two picture books concern adventures with unusual animals.

Lawmakers continue to stress a need for the public to have a clearer picture of colleges' graduation and job-placement rates.

Standard cameras process the information they capture to turn it into a picture.

Looking at a picture of a loved one can dull physical pain.

There's a sense that picture books are only good until you learn to read, and then they should be abandoned.

Publishers are scaling back on picture books as more parents favor text-heavy chapter books for their young children.

Measuring poverty by income alone may distort the picture.

However, our ranking takes data over a three-year period, which helps provide a more rounded picture.

But after prolonged stress, the mental picture isn't pretty.

Admit you can picture yourself under these leaves--sitting cross-legged, palms up, practicing your mantra perhaps.

Readers respond to an article about how publishers are scaling back on picture books.

Instead, use that time to put this micro-exercise into a bigger picture and wider context.

The picture isn't entirely gloomy-inflation appears to have.

Picture this: a movie revealing the inner workings of a cell or showing a nanomachine in action.

Not only is this a beautiful picture but it has so many elements that make it pleasing to the eye.

My wife showed me a picture of a storage unit and asked me to.

Pulling out the infrared light in a photo might clean things up, but it can't save a blurred picture.

The alphabet leaps to life in these new picture books.

Commentators have lamented the dwindling number of students majoring in the humanities, but the picture may not be that bleak.

Admittedly, the real picture is more complicated than some in the education lobby would concede.

Instead of one universal evolutionary tree, picture a three-trunk stand sharing a communal root system.

Crooked branches and dark, red-tinged bark make dramatic picture against winter sky.

The picture appears red because it was taken using infrared light, which can pierce through opaque dust clouds.

Creatures in need of companionship are the main features in these three picture books.

Before you let those anxieties overwhelm you, step back and look at the big picture.

The picture is still blurred, but growing gradually clearer.

Just as a picture is worth a thousand words, our faces can express a wealth of information.

He wedged his camera through the gap and took the only picture possible.

Watch the procession from the restaurant's long picture window.

Lookybook is a new site where you can browse children's picture books by flipping through every page.

No matter how dire our national budget picture may be today, it will eventually improve.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, an infographic is worth an awful lot of data points.

On the hillside, aspen trees present a similar picture.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it's also sometimes worth a few words of explanation.

They id as many as possible, emailing the results to you and/or posting them online with your picture.

The land heavyweights of the animal kingdom figure largely in three picture books.

But in spite of some progress, the overall picture of access to college for low-income students is sobering.

The picture shows an elephant from a neighbouring group pulling at her body.

Results showed that participants paused longer but made fewer errors when naming the picture when a taboo word was superimposed.

But with this exhibition, a different picture emerges, not only of his personal life but also of his approach to art.

Picture its lush green palms and ferns, its bright.

Without proper attention, he said, they don't have an accurate picture of overseas regulations or in-country demand.

To them, admiring a picture and understanding how it comes about are two sides of the same coin.

The new picture that has emerged of the plant also helps researchers better understand its evolution and history.

It's hard to believe that this is not one picture but several combined.

In the banlieues themselves, the political picture is more mixed.

Doom for the grim, but realistic, picture she paints of reefs suffering worldwide.

These stories focus on huge financial settlements for complainants and paint a picture of an almost cold and uncaring.

In the picture the boatmen look more serene than fearful, as their vessels slice through the waves.

The picture is murkier for developing countries, which hold the bulk of the world's official reserves.

All elements in this picture are lively,whether is fire or cloud or their red dresses.

Hossler cautions that the report does not reveal the many winners and losers in the recession-era enrollment picture.

But thanks to an innovative experiment with online education, the picture has changed dramatically.

The lighting is beautiful in a picture that brings back many memories of my childhood.

Seems to me that the picture is a bit rosier than it was in the social sciences.

But a political convulsion has now upended this picture.

Several actually pulled out their cellphones to take a picture of it.

But when calculated according to the number of computers in each country a different picture emerges.

Now new forms of biodiesel are starting to change the picture again.

Using output per hour, however, shows a different picture.

Cuts to government programmes will add public employees to the ranks of the jobless, complicating the unemployment picture.

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picture (ˈpɪktʃə)

—n
1.	a. a visual representation of something, such as a person or scene, produced on a surface, as in a photograph, painting, etc
	b. (as modifier): picture gallery; picture postcard Related: pictorial
2.	a mental image or impression: a clear picture of events
3.	a verbal description, esp one that is vivid
4.	a situation considered as an observable scene: the political picture
5.	a person or thing that bears a close resemblance to another: he was the picture of his father
6.	a person, scene, etc, considered as typifying a particular state or quality: the picture of despair
7.	a beautiful person or scene: you'll look a picture
8.	a complete image on a television screen, comprising two interlaced fields
9.	a. a motion picture; film
	b. (as modifier): picture theatre
10.	chiefly (Brit), (Austral) the pictures a cinema or film show
11.	another name for tableau vivant
12.	informal get the picture to understand a situation
13.	in the picture informed about a given situation

—vb
14.	to visualize or imagine
15.	to describe or depict, esp vividly
16.	(often passive) to put in a picture or make a picture of: they were pictured sitting on the rocks

Related: pictorial

[C15: from Latin pictūra painting, from pingere to paint]

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Word Origin & History

picture

c.1420, from L. pictura "painting," from pictus, pp. of pingere "to make pictures, to paint, to embroider," (see paint). The verb, in the mental sense, is from 1738; pictures "movies," short for moving pictures, is from 1912. Picture post-card first recorded 1899. Phrase every

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picture tells a story first attested 1906, in an advertisement for kidney pills; a picture is worth a thousand words (1921), said to be a Confucian proverb, first recorded in a printers' professional journal.

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Computing Dictionary

picture definition

image

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

picture

In addition to the idiom beginning with picture, also see get the message (picture); in the picture; pretty as a picture; take a picture; the picture.

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