A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface. Synonyms:icon, ikon, image."A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
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Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface. Synonym:painting."He bought the painting as an investment" , "His pictures hang in the Louvre"
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A clear and telling mental image. Synonyms:impression, mental picture."He had no clear picture of himself or his world" , "The events left a permanent impression in his mind"
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A situation treated as an observable object. Synonym:scene."The religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
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Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text. Synonym:pictorial matter.
A typical example of some state or quality. "She was the picture of despair"
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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:exposure, photo, photograph, pic.
verb
(past & past part. pictured; pres. part. picturing)
... remained in another form of slavery (Peonage System) for 40 years. He remembers when Atlanta was just a few hills without any buildings. Some of the buildings he worked on are the Herman Building and the original Kimball House, a picture of which is attached. ... — Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 4 • Works Projects Administration Read full book for free!
... old novels are any true picture of life, there was a time when every cleric was a place-hunter. Would you have advised good men to keep out of the church at that time? I'm told there's hardly an honourable man in United States ... — What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall Read full book for free!
... doctor, taking no notice of this, "in other respects corresponds with More's description of the opkuk. Clusius and Bontius give good descriptions and there is a well-known picture of one in the British Museum. It is a massive, clumsy bird, ungraceful in its form with heavy movements, wings too short for flight, little or no tail, and down rather than feathers. The body, according to Bontius, is as big as that of the African ostrich, but the legs are very short. It ... — A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder • James De Mille Read full book for free!
... has therefore attempted to make this wider survey and to bring before you as complete a picture as possible. ... — Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand • David G. McMillan Read full book for free!
... that figure in the fable of El Dorado are found in the tributary streams of the Rio Branco. Slight local circumstances, joined to the remembrances of the salt lake of Mexico, more especially of the celebrated lake Manoa in the Dorado des Omaguas, have served to complete a picture created by the imagination of Raleigh and his two lieutenants, Keymis and Masham. The inundations of the Rio Branco, I conceive, may be compared at the utmost to those of the Red River of Louisiana, between Nachitoches and Cados, but ... — Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt Read full book for free!
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