Pronunciation Noun
picture (plural pictures)
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175 ↗:
- 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.
- An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803 ↗:
- 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.
- 2007, The Workers' Republic
- 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 […].
- A painting.
- There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
- A photograph.
- I took a picture of the church.
- (informal, dated) A motion picture.
- Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
- (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
- Let's go to the pictures.
- A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
- She's the very picture of health.
- An attractive sight.
- The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
- The art of painting; representation by painting.
- any well-expressed image […] either in picture or sculpture
- A figure; a model.
- the young king's picture […] in virgin wax
- Situation.
- 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.
- (representation as in the imagination) image
- French: image
- German: Bild, Abbildung, Abbild, Gemälde
- Italian: quadro, immagine
- Portuguese: figura, imagem
- Russian: карти́на
- Spanish: imagen
- French: photo
- German: Foto, Bild
- Italian: fotografia, foto
- Portuguese: fotografia, foto
- Russian: фотогра́фия
- Spanish: foto, fotografía
picture (pictures, present participle picturing; past and past participle pictured)
- (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
- (transitive) To imagine or envision.
- 1967, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", released on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
- 1967, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", released on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.
- German: fotographieren, Foto
- German: etwas vorstellen
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