Picture

picture
noun1a 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"2graphic 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"[syn: painting]3a 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"[syn: mental picture]4a situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"5illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures"6a 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"7the visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"[syn: video]8a 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"[syn: word picture]9a typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"10a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material[syn: photograph]
verb1imagine; 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"[syn: visualize]2show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"