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English

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A picture by Pere Borrell del Caso

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishpycture, fromOld Frenchpicture, itself fromLatinpictūra(“the art of painting, a painting”), frompingō(“I paint”).Doublet ofpictura.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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picture (pluralpictures)

  1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, bydrawing,painting,printing,photography, etc.
    • 1879,R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, inThe Amateur Poacher, London:Smith, Elder, & Co., […],→OCLC:
      Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. […]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from apicture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
    • 2012 March,Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, inAmerican Scientist, volume100, number 2, page106:
      Drawings andpictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
  2. Animage; a representation as in theimagination.
    • 1828,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,A Day Dream:
      My eyes makepictures when they are shut.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
      So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a bravepicture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
    • 2007,The Workers' Republic:
      Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up apicture of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him[…]as being tall, commanding, and as the advance notices of him, a sliver-tongued orator. I found him, however, to be the opposite of my mentalpicture; short, squat, unpretentious […].
  3. Apainting.
    There was apicture hanging above the fireplace.
  4. Aphotograph.
    I took apicture of the church.
    • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, inRailway Magazine, page77:
      It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain apicture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.
    • 1967, “Pictures of Lily”, performed by The Who:
      Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful /Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night
    • 1989, “Pictures of You”, inDisintegration, performed by The Cure:
      I've been looking so long at thesepictures of you / That I almost believe that they're real
  5. (dated or India) Amotion picture.
    Casablanca is my all-time favoritepicture.
    • 1932,Delos W. Lovelace,King Kong, published1965, page13:
      "You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my nextpicture."
  6. (in theplural, informal)("the pictures")Cinema(as a form of entertainment).
    Let's go to thepictures.
  7. Aparagon, a perfectexample orspecimen (of a category).
    She's the verypicture of health.
    • 2018, Sandeep Jauhar,Heart: a History,→ISBN, page114:
      Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in poor health for much of his presidency, even though his doctors, his family, and even journalists colluded to portray him as thepicture of health.
  8. An attractive sight.
    The garden is a realpicture at this time of year.
    • 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, inthe Guardian‎[1]:
      it was heartening to see a young Indian football team Mata had invited to Manchester. His face was apicture when he listened to the little footballers sing a team song for him.
  9. Theart ofpainting; representation by painting.
    • 1862,Henry Barnard, “Sir Henry Wotton”, inAmerican Journal of Education:
      any well-expressed image[…]either inpicture or sculpture
  10. A figure; a model.
  11. Situation.
    The employmentpicture for the older middle class is not so good.
    You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the bigpicture.
  12. (MLE) Asample of an illegal drug.
    If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need apicture.
  13. (programming) Aformat string in theCOBOLprogramming language.
    • 1997, John Barnes,Ada 95 Rationale: The Language - The Standard Libraries, page390:
      The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in apicture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution.
    • 1997, Roger Hutty, Mary Spence,Mastering COBOL Programming, page20:
      To recapitulate, thepictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character[…]

Synonyms

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  • (representation as in the imagination):image

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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Terms derived frompicture (noun)

Descendants

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Translations

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representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc
painting—seepainting
photograph
cinema
a film/movie theatre—seecinema
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Verb

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picture (third-person singular simple presentpictures,present participlepicturing,simple past and past participlepictured)

  1. (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
    • 1962,Vladimir Nabokov,Pale Fire, page130:
      while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist hadpictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut.
    • 1966, Margaret Naumburg,Dynamically oriented art therapy, page154:
      What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient hadpictured herself as a much younger woman
    • 1999, Lisa Gitelman,Scripts, grooves, and writing machines, page107:
      Anyone "skilled in the art" could see from their language that Lemp and Wightman had not invented or patented the invention their draftsman hadpictured.
  2. (transitive) Toimagine orenvision.
  3. (transitive) Todepict ordescribevividly.
    • 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle,The Man with the Watches:
      I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; Ipictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose.
    • 1985, Edmund Burke Feldman,Thinking about art, page252:
      Drawing ispicturing people, places, and things with line.
    • 1989, Jan Jelínek,The great art of the early Australians, page490:
      Many rock paintingspicture various species of fish.
    • 2003, Jack Shadoian,Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page196:
      A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage,picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.
    • 2004, Helen South,The everything drawing book, page75:
      The sketchpictured here takes in the whole scene.

Related terms

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Translations

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to take a picture of
to imagine or envision
to depict or describe vividly—seedepict,‎describe

See also

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Latin

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Participle

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pictūre

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofpictūrus

Norman

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchpicture, borrowed fromLatinpictūra(“the art of painting, a painting”) (compare the inherited Old French formpeinture), frompingō, pingere(“paint; decorate, embellish”), fromProto-Indo-European*peyḱ-(“spot, color”).

Noun

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picture f (pluralpictures)

  1. (Guernsey)picture
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