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1. A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
   "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"
   - image, icon, ikon
    
2. Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
   "his pictures hang in the Louvre"
   - painting
    
3. A clear and telling mental image
   "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"
   - mental picture, impression
    
4. A situation treated as an observable object
   "the political picture is favourable"
   - scene
    
5. Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
   "the dictionary had many pictures"
   - pictorial matter
    
6. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
   - movie, film, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
    
7. The visible part of a television transmission
   "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
   - video
    
8. 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"
   - word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, characterization, characterisation [Brit]
    
9. A typical example of some state or quality
   "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
    
10. A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
    - photograph, photo, exposure, pic

1. Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
   - visualize, visualise [Brit], envision, project, fancy, see, figure, image
    
2. Show in, or as in, a picture
   - depict, render, show

Sounds like: pitcher

Derived forms: pictured, pictures, picturing

See also: depict, pictural, picturing

Type of: conceive of, description, envisage, exemplification, graphic art, ideate, illustration, image, imagine, interpret, mental image, product, production, represent, representation, show, situation, state of affairs, typification, verbal description, visual communication

Part of: telecasting, television, TV, video

Encyclopedia: Picture