picture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.
Inflected forms:
form: pictures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pickchah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: pickchuh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: pitcha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: pitchah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: pitcher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: pitchuh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: pitchur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: pictures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: picturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pictured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pictured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pickchah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: pickchuh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: pitcha
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: pitchah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: pitcher
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: pitchuh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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form: pitchur
pos: verb
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Senses:
gloss: A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: An image; a representation as in the imagination.
pos: noun
examples: My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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.
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[…].
gloss: A painting.
pos: noun
examples: There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
gloss: A photograph.
pos: noun
examples: I took a picture of the church.
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.
Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful / Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you / That I almost believe that they're real
gloss: A motion picture.
pos: noun
tags: India
dated
examples: Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
"You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture."
gloss: ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
informal
examples: Let's go to the pictures.
gloss: A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
pos: noun
examples: She's the very picture of health.
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.
gloss: An attractive sight.
pos: noun
examples: The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
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.
gloss: The art of painting; representation by painting.
pos: noun
examples: any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture
gloss: A figure; a model.
pos: noun
examples: the young king's picture[…]in virgin wax
gloss: Situation.
pos: noun
examples: The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good.
You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture.
gloss: A sample of an illegal drug.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.
gloss: A format string in the COBOL programming language.
pos: noun
examples: The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution.
To recapitulate, the pictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character […]
gloss: To represent in or with a picture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut.
What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient had pictured herself as a much younger woman
Anyone "skilled in the art" could see from their language that Lemp and Wightman had not invented or patented the invention their draftsman had pictured.
gloss: To imagine or envision.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
If you can picture this—a day in December / Picture this—freezing cold weather / You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids
gloss: To depict or describe vividly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose.
Drawing is picturing people, places, and things with line.
Many rock paintings picture various species of fish.
A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
The sketch pictured here takes in the whole scene.
Synonyms: picture
Related words: frame
canvas
postcard
poster
tapestry
gallery
depict
depiction
pictorial
Wiktionary:Picture dictionary
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