a picture paints a thousand words

a Determinative

— A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type. Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".

a Noun

— A is the first letter of the alphabet. The letter "a" comes before "b". — In some schools, an A is a very high grade. Ron got an A on his earth science test.

picture Noun

— A picture is marks on a flat object, like paper, that show shapes, people, or things. Mommy, I drew a picture of a cat. Susan looked at the picture on the wall. — A picture is a photograph. Everyone stand there together and I'll take your picture. — A picture is a still or moving image on a screen. — A picture is an idea or image that have inside your head. — A picture is an understanding of a situation. What's the picture like in Somalia?

picture Verb

— If you picture something, you make an image of it in your head. — If something is pictured, it is shown in a picture. — If something is pictured a certain way, it is described that way.

paint Noun

— a liquid used to colour something There were all sorts of paints at the shop - green, red, and blue. Sarah used pink paint to decorate the wall.

paint Verb

— to use paint to colour something John painted the wall brown. — to use paint to make a picture. The child painted a picture of a flower.

thousand Determiner

— (ordinal thousandth) The number 1,000. Julius Caesar lived about two thousand years ago.

thousand Noun

— The number 1,000.

words

— noun the words that are spoken I listened to his words very closely — noun (= lyric, language) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number his compositions always started with the lyrics he wrote both words and music the song uses colloquial language — noun language that is spoken or written he has a gift for words she put her thoughts into words — noun (= speech) words making up the dialogue of a play the actor forgot his speech — noun (= quarrel) an angry dispute they had a quarrel they had words