PICTURE

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : painting

• (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

  synonyms : exposure , photo , photograph , pic

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : icon , ikon , image

• (noun) a typical example of some state or quality

  "the very picture of a modern general", "she was the picture of despair"

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : impression , mental picture

• (noun) the visible part of a television transmission

  "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"

  synonyms : video

• (noun) 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"

  synonyms : film , flick , motion picture , motion-picture show , movie , moving picture , moving-picture show , pic , picture show

• (noun) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text

  "the dictionary had many pictures"

  synonyms : pictorial matter

• (noun) 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"

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

• (noun) a situation treated as an observable object

  "the political picture is favorable", "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"

  synonyms : scene

• (verb) 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"

  synonyms : envision , fancy , figure , image , project , see , visualise , visualize

• (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"

  synonyms : depict , render , show

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