Sekirov Dictionary

picture

UK /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/US /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/

noun 13
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 7

noun13

a drawing, painting or photo of someone or something, on paper or another surface
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A painting.
- There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
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A photograph.
- I took a picture of the church.
A figure; a model.
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Situation.
- The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good.
- You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture.
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An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- My eyes make pictures when they are shut. — 1828
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A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
- She's the very picture of health.
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[in the plural] (informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
- Let's go to the pictures.
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(old-fashioned) A motion picture.
- Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
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An attractive sight.
- The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
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The art of painting; representation by painting.
- any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture — 1862
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(slang) A sample of an illegal drug.
- If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.
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A format string in the COBOL programming language.
- The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution. — 1997

verb3

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To represent in or with a picture.
- 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. — 1962
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To imagine or envision.
- Now that he had seen him once, he could picture the fish swimming in the water with his purple pectoral fins set wide as wings and the great erect tail slicing through the dark. — 1952
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To depict or describe vividly.
- Drawing is picturing people, places, and things with line. — 1985

forms

pictured · picturing · pictures

Phrases with picture

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