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  1. noun A visual representation or image painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface.
  2. noun A visible image, especially one on a flat surface or screen: the picture reflected in the lake; focused the picture on the movie screen.
  3. noun A vivid or realistic verbal description: a Shakespearean picture of guilt.

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  • Mary Anderson has written on the back of a photo, "Better late than never," for the picture was a long time coming; another excellent example of photographic work being a large head of Mr. Irving as "Becket," bearing his autograph. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
  • From an artistic point of view, the picture was a masterpiece. —  Pater Peter. English.
  • The rest of the picture is as false in light and shade as it is pretentious, made up chiefly of gleaming buttons in places where no light could possibly reach them; and of an embossed belt on the shoulder, which people think finely painted because it is all over lumps of color, not one of which was necessary. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
  • The black touch in the picture was her smooth black hair and painted eyebrows Here follows a pen scribble in my journal of what happens in this household once a week I understand. —  From Edinburgh to India ; Burmah
  • Beneath the picture was the legend, "You Can Let Yourself Go at Giddyville I looked anxiously at Suzanne as she surveyed this masterpiece Well," I said at last, "isn't that the place of your dreams? —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31
 

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image ·  story ·  idea ·  character ·  description ·  book ·  figure ·  feature ·  sign ·  piece

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picture:   pictures ·  picturing ·  pictured
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  1. Middle English, from Latin pictūra, from pictus, painted, past participle of pingere, to paint; see peig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, also peinture, French peinture (with n due to orig. infinitive) = Spanish Portuguese pintura = Italian pittura, pintura, from Latin pictura, the art of painting, a painting, from pingere, future part, picturus, paint, = Sanskritpiç, adorn. From Latin pingere are also ult. English paint, depict, Pictor, pictorial, etc., pigment, pimento, pint, etc.
  2. from picture, n.
 

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