'Picture' definitions:
Definition of 'picture'
(from WordNet)
noun
A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon]
noun
Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre" [syn: painting, picture]
noun
A clear and telling mental image; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind" [syn: mental picture, picture, impression]
noun
A situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century" [syn: picture, scene]
noun
Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures" [syn: picture, pictorial matter]
noun
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick]
noun
The visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone" [syn: video, picture]
noun
A graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation]
noun
A typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
noun
A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light- sensitive material [syn: photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic]
verb
Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]
verb
Definition of 'Picture'
From: GCIDE
- Picture \Pic"ture\, n. [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint.]
- 1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model. [1913 Webster]
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. --Howell. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief. [1913 Webster]
- My eyes make pictures when they are shut. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Animated picture, a moving picture.
- Picture gallery, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures.
- Picture red, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung.
- Picture writing. (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. --Tylor. (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of the American Indians. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Picture, Painting.
- Usage: Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Picture'
From: GCIDE
- Picture \Pic"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pictured; p. pr. & vb. n. Picturing.] To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. "I . . . do picture it in my mind." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- I have not seen him so pictured. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'picture'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 3-D,
- abstract,
- abstraction,
- aerial photograph,
- ally,
- altarpiece,
- alter ego,
- analogon,
- analogue,
- animated cartoon,
- approach,
- arrangement,
- artwork,
- associate,
- attack,
- badge,
- banner,
- beam,
- beat signal,
- black spot,
- black-and-white film,
- black-and-white photograph,
- blips,
- block print,
- bloom,
- blooping,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- bounces,
- brass tacks,
- bring to life,
- brother,
- calculation,
- call to mind,
- call up,
- cameo,
- candid photograph,
- carbon copy,
- cartoon,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- catch a likeness,
- certified copy,
- chalk,
- character,
- character sketch,
- characteristic,
- characterization,
- characterize,
- charcoal,
- chart,
- charting,
- cheesecake,
- chiller,
- chronophotograph,
- cine,
- cinema,
- Cinemascope,
- Cinerama,
- close copy,
- close match,
- cognate,
- collage,
- color,
- color film,
- color photograph,
- color print,
- companion,
- complement,
- concept,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- congenator,
- congener,
- conjure up,
- contrivance,
- coordinate,
- copy,
- correlate,
- correlative,
- correspondent,
- counterfeit,
- counterpart,
- crayon,
- creepie,
- crosshatch,
- CRT spot,
- cyclorama,
- dash off,
- daub,
- dead ringer,
- definition,
- delineate,
- delineation,
- depict,
- depiction,
- describe,
- description,
- design,
- details,
- device,
- diagram,
- diapositive,
- differentia,
- diptych,
- display,
- disposition,
- DM display,
- documentary,
- documentary film,
- doodle,
- Doppler signal,
- double,
- double-dot display,
- draft,
- draw,
- drawing,
- duplicate,
- earmark,
- echo,
- echo signal,
- ectype,
- educational film,
- effigy,
- eidetic image,
- embodiment,
- engraving,
- enterprise,
- envisage,
- envisagement,
- envisaging,
- envision,
- envisioning,
- epitome,
- equivalent,
- essence,
- essential facts,
- essentials,
- evocation,
- evoke,
- exact likeness,
- express,
- eyeful,
- facsimile,
- fair copy,
- faithful copy,
- fake,
- fancy,
- feature,
- fellow,
- figuring,
- film,
- flare,
- flick,
- flicker,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- forgery,
- fresco,
- fringe area,
- game,
- ghost,
- give words to,
- granulation,
- graphic account,
- graphing,
- grid,
- ground plan,
- guidelines,
- hallmark,
- hard shadow,
- hatch,
- heliochrome,
- heliograph,
- hit off,
- horror picture,
- horse opera,
- icon,
- idea,
- idiosyncrasy,
- idol,
- IF signal,
- illumination,
- illustrate,
- illustration,
- IM display,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagery study,
- imagine,
- imaging,
- imagism,
- imitation,
- impression,
- incarnation,
- index,
- indicant,
- indicator,
- insignia,
- intention,
- interpret,
- itemization,
- just see,
- keynote,
- kindred spirit,
- layout,
- lifelike image,
- like,
- likeness,
- limn,
- limning,
- lineup,
- living image,
- living picture,
- local oscillator signal,
- long-range plan,
- map,
- mapping,
- mark,
- master plan,
- match,
- mate,
- measure,
- mental image,
- mental picture,
- mental representation,
- method,
- methodology,
- miniature,
- mirroring,
- model,
- montage,
- mosaic,
- motion picture,
- motion-picture show,
- movie,
- moving picture,
- mug,
- mug shot,
- multiple image,
- mural,
- near duplicate,
- newsreel,
- noise,
- notate,
- note,
- notion,
- nudie,
- objectification,
- objectify,
- obverse,
- operations research,
- organization,
- outline,
- output signal,
- paint,
- paint a picture,
- painting,
- panorama,
- parallel,
- particularization,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- peculiarity,
- pencil,
- pendant,
- personification,
- phony,
- photo,
- photobiography,
- photochronograph,
- photodrama,
- photograph,
- photomap,
- photomicrograph,
- photomontage,
- photomural,
- photoplay,
- picture noise,
- picture shifts,
- picture show,
- picturing,
- picturize,
- pinup,
- pips,
- plan,
- planning,
- planning function,
- poem,
- poetic imagery,
- pornographic film,
- portrait,
- portraiture,
- portray,
- portrayal,
- prearrangement,
- presentment,
- preview,
- print,
- procedure,
- profile,
- program,
- program of action,
- property,
- prototype,
- radar signal,
- rain,
- rationalization,
- reading,
- realize,
- reciprocal,
- reflection,
- register,
- render,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- represent,
- representation,
- representative,
- reproduction,
- resemblance,
- return,
- return signal,
- RF echoes,
- ringer,
- rolling,
- rub,
- rubbing,
- scanning pattern,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- schematize,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- scintillation,
- scratch,
- scumble,
- seal,
- second self,
- see,
- semblance,
- set forth,
- setup,
- shade,
- shading,
- shadow,
- short,
- shot,
- show,
- sigil,
- sign,
- signal,
- signal display,
- signature,
- silent,
- silent film,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- sister,
- sketch,
- skin flick,
- slide,
- snap,
- snapshot,
- sneak preview,
- snow,
- snowstorm,
- soul mate,
- spaghetti Western,
- specification,
- spit,
- spit and image,
- spitting image,
- spot,
- stained glass window,
- stamp,
- stencil,
- still,
- still life,
- still photograph,
- strategic plan,
- strategy,
- such,
- suchlike,
- summon up,
- sure sign,
- symbolize,
- symptom,
- system,
- systematization,
- tableau,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- take a rubbing,
- talkie,
- talking picture,
- tally,
- tapestry,
- target image,
- Technicolor,
- Telephoto,
- telephotograph,
- telltale sign,
- the big picture,
- the data,
- the details,
- the dope,
- the facts,
- the information,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- the particulars,
- the picture,
- the scoop,
- the score,
- the specifics,
- the whole story,
- thing of beauty,
- thriller,
- tint,
- trace,
- trace out,
- trace over,
- tracing,
- trailer,
- trait,
- transmitter signal,
- transparency,
- triptych,
- twin,
- underground film,
- understanding,
- very image,
- very picture,
- video signal,
- vignette,
- vision,
- visual image,
- visualization,
- visualize,
- vivid description,
- Vorstellung,
- wall painting,
- way,
- Western,
- Wirephoto,
- word painting,
- word-painting,
- working plan,
- write
Words containing 'Picture'
- Picturable,
- Pictural,
- Pictured,
- Picturer,
- Picturing,
- Picturize,
- Picturized,
- Picturizing,
- picturization,
- Animated picture,
- Cabinet picture,
- Easel picture,
- Identikit picture,
- Living picture,
- Motion picture,
- Moving picture,
- Picture Rocks,
- Picture gallery,
- Picture red,
- Picture writing,
- Poker picture,
- Sand picture,
- Sepia picture,
- Sun picture,
- To cradle a picture,
- Word picture,
- get the picture,
- memory picture,
- mental picture,
- paint a picture,
- picture book,
- picture card,
- picture element,
- picture frame,
- picture hat,
- picture palace,
- picture plane,
- picture postcard,
- picture rail,
- picture show,
- picture taking,
- picture tube,
- picture window,
- silent picture,
- stereoscopic picture,
- talking picture,
- wedding picture,
- Picture Rocks, AZ,
- Picture Rocks, PA,
- motion-picture camera,
- motion-picture fan,
- motion-picture film,
- motion-picture photography,
- motion-picture show,
- moving-picture show,
- x-ray picture,
- academy of motion picture arts and sciences