picture

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

• a typical example of some state or quality
  • the very picture of a modern general
    
  • she was the picture of despair
    

• 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
    

• the visible part of a television transmission
  • they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone
    

• 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
    

• illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
  • the dictionary had many pictures
    

• a situation treated as an observable object
  • the political picture is favorable
    
  • the religious scene in England has changed in the last century
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  photograph , photo , exposure , pic , word picture , word-painting , delineation , depiction , characterization , characterisation , video , pictorial matter , scene , mental picture , impression , painting , image , icon , ikon , depict , render , show , visualize , visualise , envision , project , fancy ,