Definition of picture

noun (n)

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: icon, ikon, image
  

  Example:
  They showed us the pictures of their wedding.
  

  source: wordnet30
• graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: painting
  

  Example:
  His pictures hang in the Louvre.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a clear and telling mental image (noun.cognition)

  Synonym: impression, mental picture
  

  Example:
  He described his mental picture of his assailant.
  He had no clear picture of himself or his world.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a situation treated as an observable object (noun.state)

  Synonym: scene
  

  Example:
  The political picture is favorable.
  

  source: wordnet30
• illustrations used to decorate or explain a text (noun.communication)

  Synonym: pictorial matter
  

  Example:
  The dictionary had many pictures.
  

  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)

  Synonym: video
  

  Example:
  They could still receive the sound but the picture was gone.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a graphic or vivid verbal description (noun.communication)

  Synonym: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word picture, word-painting
  

  Example:
  Too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures.
  The author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland.
  

  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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