Picture
['pɪktʃə] or ['pɪktʃɚ]
Definition
(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'.
(noun.) a typical example of some state or quality; 'the very picture of a modern general'; 'she was the picture of despair'.
(noun.) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; 'the dictionary had many pictures'.
(noun.) a situation treated as an observable object; 'the political picture is favorable'; 'the religious scene in England has changed in the last century'.
(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'.
Checked by Kathy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
Editor: Patrick
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Painting, drawing, engraving, print.[2]. Image, resemblance, semblance, likeness, representation, similitude.
v. a. Paint, draw, represent, delineate, form an image of.
Editor: Vicky
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Delineate, draw, paint, represent,[See REPRESENT]
SYN:Likeness, resemblance, drawing, painting, representation, image, engraving
ANT:Original
Typist: Millie
Definition
n. a painting: a likeness in colours: a drawing: painting: a resemblance: an image: a vivid verbal description.—v.t. to paint to represent by painting: to form a likeness of in the mind: to describe vividly in words.—n. Pic′tograph a picture or pictorial sign: a piece of picture-writing.—adj. Pictograph′ic.—n. Pictog′raphy.—adjs. Pictō′rial Pic′tūral relating to pictures: illustrated by pictures: consisting of pictures.—adv. Pictō′rially.—ns. Pic′tūral (Spens.) a picture; Pic′ture-book a book of pictures; Pic′ture-frame a frame surrounding a picture; Pic′ture-gall′ery a gallery or large room in which pictures are hung up for exhibition; Pic′ture-rod a rod running round the upper part of the wall of a room from which pictures are hung; Pic′ture-writ′ing the use of pictures to express ideas or relate events.
Inputed by Cathleen
Unserious Contents or Definition
Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception and the ill will of contemporaries. To make a picture, denotes that you will engage in some unremunerative enterprise. To destroy pictures, means that you will be pardoned for using strenuous means to establish your rights. To buy them, foretells worthless speculation. To dream of seeing your likeness in a living tree, appearing and disappearing, denotes that you will be prosperous and seemingly contented, but there will be disappointments in reaching out for companionship and reciprocal understanding of ideas and plans. To dream of being surrounded with the best efforts of the old and modern masters, denotes that you will have insatiable longings and desires for higher attainments, compared to which present success will seem poverty-stricken and miserable. See Painting and Photographs.
Typist: Waldo
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
Edited by Jeffrey
Examples
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As the glare of day mellowed into twilight, we looked down upon a picture which is celebrated all over the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A motion-picture film is a thin ribbon of transparent pyroxylin plastic or nitrocellulose, which is highly inflammable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Is it anything about a picture? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And that opens a pretty picture of things, I hope? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Finish one picture, sir, and you are a painter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We then have the picture in its finished form. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The taking of the pictures. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The taking of pictures is, of course, one of the interesting phases of the business from a popular standpoint. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That of the evolution of motion pictures follows. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He delivered the jewels to the Abbot, and then showed him the pictures. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The shepherds that tended them were the very pictures of Joseph and his brethren I have no doubt in the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These pictures are so perfect in detail that, when photographed and enlarged, objects no greater than a blade of grass may be distinctly recognized. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He pictured the town emancipated from its ugliness and its cruelty--a beautiful city for free men and women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And the young man and the two old men; they, too, were much as he had pictured his own people to be. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was not so with me; and the question of rank and right dwindled to insignificance in my eyes, when I pictured the scene of suffering Athens. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Night was setting in, and its bleakness was enhanced by the contrast of the pictured fire glowing and gleaming in the window-pane. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- These then were the preparations for a battle, nay, the battle itself; far different from any thing the imagination had pictured. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have found it difficult, when looking at any two species, to avoid picturing to myself forms DIRECTLY intermediate between them. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Checker: Ronnie