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
[pik-cher] 
noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.
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