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.
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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.
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the image on a computer monitor, the viewing screen of a television set, or a motion-picture screen.
–verb (used with object)
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to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing.
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to form a mental picture of; imagine: He couldn't picture himself doing such a thing.
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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.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < L pictūra the act of painting, a painting, equiv. to pict(us) (ptp. of pingere to paint) + -ūra-ure]
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 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.
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
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graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre" [syn: painting]
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a clear and telling mental image; "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" [syn: mental picture]
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a situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
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illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures"
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a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
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the visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone" [syn: video]
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a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: word picture]
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a typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
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a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material [syn: photograph]
verb
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imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize]
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show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
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Pic"ture\, n. Animated picture, a moving picture. Pierre-perdu \Pierre`-per`du"\, n. [F. pierre perdue lost stone.] Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.
Paint\ (p[=a]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting.] [OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. of peindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. poiki`los many-colored, Skr. pi[,c] to adorn. Cf. Depict, Picture, Pigment, Pint.]1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. --2 Kings ix. 30. 2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. --Shak. Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight. --Shak. 3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape. 4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict. Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. --Shak. If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. --Pope. Syn: To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate; sketch; draw; describe.
Paint"ing\, n. 1. The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors. 2. (Fine Arts) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. [R.] --Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation in words. Syn: See Picture.
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