Hypertext Webster Gateway: "picture"

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) 1.7 (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: 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" [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}, {pic}, {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}, {characterisation}]
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; 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" [syn: {visualize}, {envision}, {project},
{fancy}, {see}, {figure}, {image}]
2: 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" [syn: {depict}, {render}, {show}]


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