PICTURE

painting, picture

(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”

photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic

(noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

picture, image, icon, ikon

(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”

picture

(noun) a typical example of some state or quality; “the very picture of a modern general”; “she was the picture of despair”

video, picture

(noun) the visible part of a television transmission; “they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone”

movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick

(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”

picture, pictorial matter

(noun) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; “the dictionary had many pictures”

picture, scene

(noun) a situation treated as an observable object; “the political picture is favorable”; “the religious scene in England has changed in the last century”

visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image

(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”

picture, depict, render, show

(verb) show in, or as in, a picture; “This scene depicts country life”; “the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

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.

An image; a representation as in the imagination.

A painting.

A photograph.

(informal, dated) A motion picture.

(in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).

A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).

An attractive sight.

The art of painting; representation by painting.

A figure; a model.

Situation.

Synonyms

• (representation as in the imagination): image

Hyponyms

• big picture

• motion picture

Verb

picture (third-person singular simple present pictures, present participle picturing, simple past and past participle pictured)

(transitive) To represent in or with a picture.

(transitive) To imagine or envision.

(transitive) To depict or describe vividly.

Anagrams

• cuprite

Source: Wiktionary

Pic"ture, n. Etym: [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint.]

1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.

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. Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon. The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. Howell.

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. My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Coleridge.

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. 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.

Syn.

– Picture, Painting. 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.

Pic"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pictured; p. pr. & vb. n. Picturing.]

Definition: 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. I have not seen him so pictured. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition