| picture | (n) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface, Syn. icon, ikon, image, Example: they showed us the pictures of their wedding; a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them |
| picture | (n) a situation treated as an observable object, Syn. scene, Example: the political picture is favorable; the religious scene in England has changed in the last century |
| picture | (n) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text, Syn. pictorial matter, Example: the dictionary had many pictures |
| picture | (n) a typical example of some state or quality, Example: the very picture of a modern general; she was the picture of despair |
| picture | (v) show in, or as in, a picture, Syn. render, depict, show, Example: This scene depicts country life; the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting |
| picture book | (n) a book consisting chiefly of pictures |
| picture frame | (n) a framework in which a picture is mounted |
| picture hat | (n) a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim |
| picture plane | (n) the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work |
| picture postcard | (n) a postcard with a picture on one side |
| Pictura | ‖n. [ L., a painting. ] (Zool.) Pattern of coloration. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Picturable | a. Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Pictural | a. Pictorial. [ R. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Pictural | n. A picture. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Picture | n. [ L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint. ] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ] Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ] My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Picture | v. t. I have not seen him so pictured. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Pictured | a. Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; |
| Picturer | n. One who makes pictures; a painter. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Picturesque | a. [ It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial. ] Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ] -- |
| Picturesquish | a. Somewhat picturesque. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |