picture

Meanings

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
  • "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"
• graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
  • "his pictures hang in the Louvre"
• a clear and telling mental image
  • "he described his mental picture of his assailant"
  • "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"
• a situation treated as an observable object
  • "the political picture is favorable"
• illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
  • "the dictionary had many pictures"
• a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
• the visible part of a television transmission
  • "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
• 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"
• a typical example of some state or quality
  • "the very picture of a modern general"
  • "she was the picture of despair"
• a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
• show in, or as in, a picture

Synonyms

characterisation, characterization, delineation, depict, depiction, envision, exposure, fancy, figure, film, flick, icon, ikon, image, impression, mental picture, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, painting, photo, photograph, pic, pictorial matter, picture show, project, render, scene, see, show, video, visualise, visualize, word picture, word-painting