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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Picture \Pic"ture\, n. {Animated picture}, a moving picture. Pierre-perdu \Pierre`-per`du"\, n. [F. pierre perdue lost stone.] Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Picture \Pic"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pictured}; p. pr & vb n. {Picturing}.] To draw or paint a resemblance of to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of to bring before the mind. ``I . . . do picture it in my mind.'' --Spenser. I have not seen him so pictured. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Picture \Pic"ture\, n. [L. pictura, fr pingere, pictum, to paint: cf F. peinture. See {Paint}.] 1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model. Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. --Bacon. The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. --Howell. 3. An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing as a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief. My eyes make pictures when they are shut. --Coleridge. Note: Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc {Picture gallery}, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures. {Picture red}, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room from which pictures are hung. {Picture writing}. a The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. --Tylor. b The record or message so represented; as the picture writing of the American Indians. Syn: {Picture}, {Painting}. Usage: Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: picture n 1: a visual representation of an object or scene or person 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" [syn: {image}, {icon}, {ikon}] 2: 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" [syn: {painting}] 3: 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" [syn: {mental picture}, {impression}] 4: a situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable" or "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century" [syn: {scene}] 5: illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures" [syn: {pictorial matter}] 6: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: {movie}, {film}, {moving picture}, {motion picture}, {picture show}, {flick}] 7: the visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone" [syn: {video}] 8: 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" [syn: {word picture}, {word-painting}, {delineation}, {depiction}, {characterization}] 9: a typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair" v 1: imagine; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!" "I can see what will happen" [syn: {visualize}, {envision}, {project}, {fancy}, {see}, {figure}, {image}] 2: show in or as in a picture; "This scene depicts country life" [syn: {depict}, {show}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: picture {image} From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three "Behold great Daubert's picture here on view -- Taken from Life." If that description's true, Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken too Jali Hane
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