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picture
('p/I/k/tS//@/r )

noun (n)

  • a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface(noun.artifact)
    Example:
    They showed us the pictures of their wedding.
    Synonym:
    icon, ikon, image
    source: wordnet30
  • graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface(noun.artifact)
    Example:
    His pictures hang in the Louvre.
    Synonym:
    painting
    source: wordnet30
  • a clear and telling mental image(noun.cognition)
    Example:
    He described his mental picture of his assailant.
    He had no clear picture of himself or his world.
    Synonym:
    impression, mental picture
    source: wordnet30
  • a situation treated as an observable object(noun.state)
    Example:
    The political picture is favorable.
    Synonym:
    scene
    source: wordnet30
  • illustrations used to decorate or explain a text(noun.communication)
    Example:
    The dictionary had many pictures.
    Synonym:
    pictorial matter
    source: wordnet30
  • a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement(noun.communication)
    Synonym:
    film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture show
    source: wordnet30
  • the visible part of a television transmission(noun.communication)
    Example:
    They could still receive the sound but the picture was gone.
    Synonym:
    video
    source: wordnet30
  • a graphic or vivid verbal description(noun.communication)
    Example:
    Too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures.
    The author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland.
    Synonym:
    characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word picture, word-painting
    source: wordnet30
  • a typical example of some state or quality(noun.cognition)
    Example:
    The very picture of a modern general.
    She was the picture of despair.
    source: wordnet30
  • a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material(noun.artifact)
    Synonym:
    exposure, photo, photograph, pic
    source: wordnet30
  • The art of painting; representation by painting.(noun)
    source: webster1913

verb (v)

  • imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind(verb.creation)
    Synonym:
    envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize
    source: wordnet30
  • show in, or as in, a picture(verb.creation)
    Synonym:
    depict, render, show
    source: wordnet30
  • To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.(verb)
    source: webster1913

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