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Meaning picture meaning

What does picture mean?
Definitions in simple English

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.

picture

— noun (= image) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface they showed us the pictures of their wedding a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them — noun (= painting) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface a small painting by Picasso he bought the painting as an investment his pictures hang in the Louvre — noun (= mental picture, impression) a clear and telling mental image he described his mental picture of his assailant he had no clear picture of himself or his world the events left a permanent impression in his mind — noun (= scene) a situation treated as an observable object the political picture is favorable the religious scene in England has changed in the last century — verb (= see) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind I can't see him on horseback! I can see what will happen I can see a risk in this strategy — verb (= depict, render, show) show in, or as in, a picture This scene depicts country life the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting — noun illustrations used to decorate or explain a text the dictionary had many pictures — noun the visible part of a television transmission they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone — noun (= movie, film) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement they went to a movie every Saturday night the film was shot on location — noun (= word picture, characterization, characterisation) 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 the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters — noun a typical example of some state or quality the very picture of a modern general she was the picture of despair — noun (= photograph) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

Synonyms picture synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as picture?

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Topics picture topics

What do people use picture to talk about?
Language and thought Think Mind

Imagine
Work and occupation Occupation Art

Photography
Person Sense, perceive

See
Daily life Household equipment

Household decoration
Work and occupation Occupation Art

Draw, paint
Person

Healthy
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Describe
States Quality Type, kind Compare

Like, similar
Grammar General words Thing

Situation

Conjugation picture conjugation

How do you conjugate picture?

picture · verb

Examples picture examples

How do I use picture in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Is it a recent picture?
I hope to see his picture soon.
This is a genuine picture by Picasso.
Can you identify the man in this picture?
Let's take a picture.
He painted a picture of a dog.
He showed me his picture.
She is drawing a picture.
Tom has finished painting the picture of Mary that he's been working on for a couple of months.
I'd like to bring attention to this picture again.
Who took the picture?
Did you find another picture?
At last I found the picture I was looking for.
Time probably didn't permit the taking of a pretty picture with vivid colours.
Who painted this picture?
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or a picture or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
May I take your picture?
Look at the picture.
The picture looks better at a distance.
Everybody in the picture is smiling happily.
The picture is hung crooked.
The picture hangs over the table.
For years the picture passed as a genuine Rembrandt.
It was impossible for him to take the picture in the dark.
I would like your picture.
The picture you are looking at is a copy of a Picasso.
You cannot take a picture in the theater without permission.

Movie subtitles

Hurry up and take the picture!
Take a picture of me next!
Are we a part of a bigger picture?
Valencia posted a lovely picture of them in their new bedroom.
There's a lot you don't know, Detective, like how to apply eyeliner or who won Best Picture in 1984.
Do you mind taking a picture of me?
And so I, uh, I stole her phone and I posted the picture.
I don't have a picture of Ashley yet.
Like in the picture books.
Mine from people interested in the issues and. well, his are mainly for five-year-olds wanting a picture with Santa.
Against the horizon, the Earth is rising slowly into space illuminating the picture with a fantastic light.
Oh, what a picture it will be!
That is a distorted picture of life.
A picture with a smile - and perhaps, a tear.
Take a picture of me next! Me too!
Do you think Rasha's picture should be bigger than Lola's?
Except this one picture.
The picture appeared, so wondrously fine.
This picture I gave up.
In Persia, the imaginary creatures depicted in the following picture were thus believed to be the cause of diseases.
Doctor Regnard shows another picture, which speaks for itself.
Great picture, isn't it?
I see you're admiring my picture?
Your picture?
Yes, my picture. - It don't look like you.
We hang that picture upstairs, for the lady.
We get the picture and we don't make a sound.
I rashly promised you a picture of myself, but you must not ask for more. I love my husband and my children.
I kiss your picture.
You're talking to a lady that's going to have her picture painted. Yeah?
Jerry, how long is this new picture going to take?
This is the fourth time I've started this picture.
There's the picture I'm doing.
The picture?
I said get rid of them, not paint more. Oh. one picture.
I'm sure. she's got a picture of me on the wall. if I know her. just to get your goat.

News and current affairs

America's business scandals showed how accounting rules can be bent and abused to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a company.
The Bush Administration, not to be left behind, has shown how public accounting rules can be bent so as to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a national economy.
The news about America's economy that dribbled out over the first half of March painted - once again - a picture that only a schizophrenic could create.
I see a very different picture.
A strange picture of Bush emerged from conversations with sub-cabinet administration appointees, their friends, and their friends of friends.
Today, from Iran to Darfur to Zimbabwe to Georgia, the world is witnessing the effects of a budding post-American world, and the picture does not look pretty.
Substitute Xinjiang for Kazakhstan and Tibet for Ukraine and you get the picture.
The political generation of Bashar al-Assad, King Abdullah, and Gamal Mubarak - son of Egypt's ailing president - forms a less coherent picture than that of the outgoing leadership.
Our results provide a surprisingly nuanced picture of Saudi attitudes.
In general, local borrowing windows are closed, and inspections are underway to gain an accurate picture of the situation.
But the picture is far more complicated, because oil demand is extremely price insensitive.
But take a few more economics courses, or spend some time in advanced seminar rooms, and you will get a different picture.
Other social indicators offer a bleak picture.
With core buyers pulling back, and the opportunity cost rising, the end of the art bubble will not be a pretty picture.
But the IMF's big-picture diagnosis of the problem gets a lot right.
In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama painted a convincing picture of modern, twenty-first-century government.
These numbers seem to paint a comforting picture of an increasingly autonomous Asia that can better withstand the blows from the West's recurring crises.
Panic about terrorism and climate change doesn't blind us entirely to other problems facing the planet, but our fear does distort the lens through which we see the big picture.
This sobering picture calls for new licensing regulations limiting oil-market participation, limits on permissible trading positions, and high margin requirements where feasible.

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