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pic⋅ture
[pik-cher] 
tʃər
noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water. |
| 3. | a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day. |
| 4. | a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version. |
| 5. | a tableau, as in theatrical representation. |
| 6. | motion picture. |
| 7. | pictures, Informal: Older Use. movies. |
| 8. | 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. |
| 9. | the image or perfect likeness of someone else: He is the picture of his father. |
| 10. | a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition: the picture of health. |
| 11. | 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. |
–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. |
| 16. | to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future. |
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| pic·ture (pĭk'chər) n.
[Middle English, from Latin pictūra, from pictus, painted, past participle of pingere, to paint; see peig- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Picture
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.Picture
Pic"ture\, n. [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint.]1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. 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. Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. --Bacon. The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. --Howell. 3. 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. My eyes make pictures when they are shut. --Coleridge. Note: Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc. Picture gallery, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures. Picture red, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung. Picture writing. (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. --Tylor. (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of the American Indians. Syn: Picture, Painting. Usage: Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush.
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Language Translation for : picture
Spanish:
pintura, cuadro, retrato,
German:
das Bild,
Japanese:
絵
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 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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picture
- The bid and ask price at which a dealer is willing to buy or sell a security.
Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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picture
image
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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