picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪk(t)ʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɪk(t)ʃəɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
homophone: pitcher stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪktʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pictures
Etymology: From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.
Senses: examples: text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March 23, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
glosses: A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
examples: text: My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
ref: 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream:
text: So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him[…]as being tall, commanding, and as the advance notices of him, a sliver-tongued orator. I found him, however, to be the opposite of my mental picture; short, squat, unpretentious[…].
ref: 2007, The Workers' Republic:
glosses: An image; a representation as in the imagination.
examples: text: There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
text: Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A painting.
examples: text: I took a picture of the church.
text: It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.
ref: 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
text: Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful / Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night
ref: 1967, “Pictures of Lily”, performed by The Who:
text: I've been looking so long at these pictures of you / That I almost believe that they're real
ref: 1989, “Pictures of You”, in Disintegration, performed by The Cure:
glosses: A photograph.
examples: text: Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
text: "You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture."
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13:
glosses: A motion picture.
examples: text: Let's go to the pictures.
glosses: ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
examples: text: She's the very picture of health.
text: Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in poor health for much of his presidency, even though his doctors, his family, and even journalists colluded to portray him as the picture of health.
ref: 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
examples: text: The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
text: it was heartening to see a young Indian football team Mata had invited to Manchester. His face was a picture when he listened to the little footballers sing a team song for him.
ref: 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian:
glosses: An attractive sight.
examples: text: any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture
ref: 1862, Henry Barnard, “Sir Henry Wotton”, in American Journal of Education:
glosses: The art of painting; representation by painting.
examples: text: the young king's picture[…]in virgin wax
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To my Brother Dr. Howell”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A figure; a model.
examples: text: The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good.
text: You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture.
glosses: Situation.
examples: text: If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.
glosses: A sample of an illegal drug.
examples: text: The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution.
ref: 1997, John Barnes, Ada 95 Rationale: The Language - The Standard Libraries, page 390:
text: To recapitulate, the pictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character […]
ref: 1997, Roger Hutty, Mary Spence, Mastering COBOL Programming, page 20:
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glosses: A format string in the COBOL programming language.
Synonyms: sense: representation as in the imagination
word: image
word: picture
Hyponyms: word: big picture
word: motion picture
word: silent picture
word: painting
word: drawing
word: portrait
word: landscape
word: cityscape
word: sketch
word: draft
word: outline
word: silhouette
word: illustration
word: daub
word: miniature
word: watercolor
word: fresco
word: aquarelle
word: pastel
word: mosaic
word: cartoon
word: icon
word: print
word: oil painting
word: chromolithograph
word: oleograph
word: triptych
word: diptych
word: polyptych
word: cyclorama
word: panorama
word: photograph
word: snapshot
word: photo
word: negative
word: stereogram
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: a picture is worth a thousand words
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: a picture paints a thousand words
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: bigger picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: big-picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: B-picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: closet-picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: counterpicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: depicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: desktop picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: devil's picture books
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: dickture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: Dirac picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: eigenpicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: enter the picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: get the picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: Heisenberg picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: interaction picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: in the picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: living picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: micropicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: mixed picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: moving picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: moving-picture theater
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: multipicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: out of the picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: overpicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: paint a rosy picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pen picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pen-picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: Pictionary
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pictology
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturable
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pictural
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture black
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture book
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture box
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture bride
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture card
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturecraft
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture day
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture desk
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture dictionary
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture disc
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturedom
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturedrome
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture editor
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture frame
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture framing
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pictureful
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturegoer
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturegraph
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture hat
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture house
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture-in-picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pictureless
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturelike
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture lock
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturemaker
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturemaking
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture message
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture messaging
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture molding
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word: picture palace
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture paper
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture-perfect
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture perfect
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturephone
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture plane
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture postcard
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturer
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture rail
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture rod
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture show
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture-skew
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturesome
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pictures or it didn't happen
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture sort
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturesque
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture tube
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture white
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture window
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picture-winged fly
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturise
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: picturize
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pretty as a picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: pretty pictures
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: put someone in the picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: repicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: road picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: Schrödinger picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: snare-picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: stereopicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: subpicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: sun picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: take a picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: talking picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: telepicture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: very picture of
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: word-picture
sense: Terms derived from picture (noun)
word: world picture
Related terms: word: frame
word: canvas
word: postcard
word: poster
word: tapestry
word: gallery