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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.
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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)
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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.
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Picturing
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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), -tured, -tur·ing.
EXPANDSynonyms
13, 15. delineate, paint, draw, represent.
13, 15. delineate, paint, draw, represent.
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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
EXPANDpicture 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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