picture
Meaning
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- 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.
- A motion picture.
- (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.
- A sample of an illegal drug.
- A format string in the COBOL programming language.
Synonyms
illustrate
picture show
mental picture
pictorial matter
take a photograph
word-painting
word picture
motion-picture show
moving-picture show
vision frequency
color film
conceive of
picture taking
still image
terminal screen
picture revealing character
come into one’s mind
graphique
screenage
graphic file
drawn back
picture-show
image picture
optical impression
striograph
mechanical drawing
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pic‧ture
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɪk(t)ʃə/
Etymology
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.
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