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From Middle English pycture < Old French picture < Latin pictūra (“‘the art of painting, a painting’”) < pingō (“‘I paint’”).
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈpɪktʃə/, SAMPA: /"pIktS@/
- (GenAm) IPA: /ˈpɪktʃɚ/, SAMPA: /"pIktS@`/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪktʃə(r)
Noun
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Singular picture |
Plural pictures |
picture (plural pictures)
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- A painting.
- There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
- A photograph.
- I took a picture of that church.
- (informal) A motion picture.
- Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
- (dated, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment)
- Let's go to the pictures.
- A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
- She's the very picture of health.
Synonyms
- (representation as in the imagination): image
Derived terms
terms derived from picture (noun)
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Verb
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Infinitive to picture |
Third person singular pictures |
Simple past pictured |
Past participle pictured |
Present participle picturing |
to picture (third-person singular simple present pictures, present participle picturing, simple past and past participle pictured)
- (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
- 1966 Margaret Naumburg, Dynamically oriented art therapy, page 154:
- What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient had pictured herself as a much younger woman
- 1962 Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Pale Fire, page 130:
- 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.
- 1999 Lisa Gitelman, Scripts, grooves, and writing machines, page 107:
- Anyone "skilled in the art" could see from their language that Lemp and Wightman had not invented or patented the invention their draftsman had pictured.
- 1966 Margaret Naumburg, Dynamically oriented art therapy, page 154:
- (transitive) To imagine or envision.
- Picture yourself on a beach.
- (transitive) To depict.
- 1985 Edmund Burke Feldman, Thinking about art, page 252:
- Drawing is picturing people, places, and things with line.
- 1989 Jan Jelínek, The great art of the early Australians, page 490:
- Many rock paintings picture various species of fish.
- 2004 Helen South, The everything drawing book, page 75:
- The sketch pictured here takes in the whole scene.
- 1985 Edmund Burke Feldman, Thinking about art, page 252:
Translations
To make a picture of
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External links
- picture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- picture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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