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picture


Definition: Meaning of, picture in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈpɪktʃə /

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picture pictures
  1. painting/drawing [countable] shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, showing what someone or something looks like
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  2. photograph [countable] a photograph
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  3. television [countable] an image that appears on a television or cinema screen
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  4. description/idea [countable usually singular] a description or idea of what something is like
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  5. situation [singular] the general situation in a place, organization etc
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  6. mental image [countable usually singular] an image or memory that you have in your mind
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  7. put/keep somebody in the picture to give someone all the information they need to understand a situation, especially one that is changing quickly
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  8. get the picture informal to understand a situation
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  9. out of the picture if someone is out of the picture, they are no longer involved in a situation
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  10. film [countable] a film
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  11. film the pictures [plural] British English the cinema
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  12. be the picture of health/innocence/despair etc to look very healthy etc
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picture pictured pictured
Present Participle Third Person Singular
picturing pictures
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  1. to imagine something by making an image in your mind
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  2. [usually passive] to show someone or something in a photograph, painting, or drawing
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  3. [usually passive] to describe something in a particular way
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picture used in phrases

  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (noun)
    1. an academy that gives annual awards for achievements in motion picture production and performance
  • Identikit picture (noun)
    1. a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought
  • Picture of Dorian Gray, The
    1. (1891) a novel by Oscar WILDE about a beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, who has a painting of himself that he keeps in the ATTIC (= a room under the roof) of his house. Dorian Gray's own face remains young and beautiful, but the face in the painting looks older and more ugly as Gray becomes more and more evil and immoral.
  • X-ray picture (noun)
    1. a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays; used in medical diagnosis
  • get the picture (verb)
    1. get the meaning of something
  • memory picture (noun)
    1. a memory image that is similar to a visual perception
  • mental picture (noun)
    1. a clear and telling mental image
  • motion picture (noun)
    1. a film made for the cinema [=  movie]
  • motion-picture camera (noun)
    1. a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession
  • motion-picture fan (noun)
    1. someone who goes to see movies
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