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US
/ˈpɪktʃɝ/
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[ UK /pˈɪktʃɐ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪktʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
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a typical example of some state or quality
she was the picture of despair
the very picture of a modern general -
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 -
a situation treated as an observable object
the religious scene in England has changed in the last century
the political picture is favorable -
a graphic or vivid verbal description
too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures
the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters
the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland -
illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
the dictionary had many pictures -
graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
he bought the painting as an investment
his pictures hang in the Louvre
a small painting by Picasso -
a clear and telling mental image
the events left a permanent impression in his mind
he had no clear picture of himself or his world
he described his mental picture of his assailant - a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
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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
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show in, or as in, a picture
the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting
This scene depicts country life -
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
How To Use picture In A Sentence
- I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
- Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production. Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen Join The Smurfs | /Film
- The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
- Hannah's remembrances of things past, however, are sometimes skewed by subtle dissonances and a sense of anxiety that disturb the apparent placidity of his picture-perfect world.
- As you can see in the photo they're kind of smirking a bit 'cause I snapped their picture with my phonecam. Archive 2008-04-01
- These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
- The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
- The next day she said the landscape as they cruised along the River Rhine was very picturesque with little villages nestling in the hills.
- Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
- Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
