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noun
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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.
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any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water.
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a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day.
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a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version.
5.
EXPANDa tableau, as in theatrical representation.
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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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COLLAPSEthe 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.
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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.
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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
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), mis·pic·tured, mis·pic·tur·ing.
EXPANDSynonyms
13, 15. delineate, paint, draw, represent.
13, 15. delineate, paint, draw, represent.
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