picture

noun pictures · pickchah · pickchuh · pitcha · pitchah · pitcher

1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
2. An image; a representation as in the imagination. My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
3. A painting. There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
4. A photograph. I took a picture of the church.
5. India, dated A motion picture. Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
6. in plural, informal ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment). Let's go to the pictures.
7. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category). She's the very picture of health.
8. An attractive sight. The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
9. The art of painting; representation by painting. any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture
10. A figure; a model. the young king's picture[…]in virgin wax
11. Situation. The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good.
12. Multicultural London English A sample of an illegal drug. If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.
13. A format string in the COBOL programming language. The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution.

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verb pictures · picturing · pictured · pickchah · pickchuh

1. transitive To represent in or with a picture. while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut.
2. transitive To imagine or envision. Now that he had seen him once, he could picture the fish swimming in the water with his purple pectoral fins set wide as wings and the great erect tail slicing through the dark.
3. transitive To depict or describe vividly. I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose.