ALL meanings of picture
pic·ture
P p - noun picture pictures, Informal: Older Use. movies. 1
- noun picture a person, thing, group, or scene regarded as resembling a work of pictorial art in beauty, fineness of appearance, etc.: She was a picture in her new blue dress. 1
- noun picture the image or perfect likeness of someone else: He is the picture of his father. 1
- noun picture a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition: the picture of health. 1
- noun picture a situation or set of circumstances: the economic picture. 1
- noun picture the image on a computer monitor, the viewing screen of a television set, or a motion-picture screen. 1
- verb with object picture to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing. 1
- verb with object picture to form a mental picture of; imagine: He couldn't picture himself doing such a thing. 1
- verb with object picture to depict in words; describe graphically: He pictured Rome so vividly that you half-believed you were there. 1
- verb with object picture to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future. 1
- noun picture image 1
- noun picture drawing 1
- abbreviation PICTURE photograph 1
- abbreviation PICTURE portrait 1
- noun picture model 1
- noun picture look-alike 1
- noun picture assessment 1
- noun Definition of picture in Technology 1. (data, graphics) Data representing a two-dimensional scene. A digital image is composed of pixels arranged in a rectangular array with a certain height and width. Each pixel may consist of one or more bits of information, representing the brightness of the image at that point and possibly including colour information encoded as RGB triples. See also image formats, image processing. 2. (mathematics) The image (or range) of a function is the set of values obtained by applying the function to all elements of its domain. So, if f : D -> C then the set f(D) = { f(d) | d in D } is the image of D under f. The image is a subset of C, the codomain. 1
- noun picture description 1
- noun picture movie, film 1
- noun picture image on a television screen 1
- transitive verb picture imagine 1
- transitive verb picture shown, depicted 1
- transitive verb picture describe 1
- noun picture a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet. 1
- noun picture any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water. 1
- noun picture a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day. 1
- noun picture a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version. 1
- noun picture a tableau, as in theatrical representation. 1
- noun picture motion picture. 1
- countable noun picture A picture consists of lines and shapes which are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface and show a person, thing, or scene. 0
- countable noun picture A picture is a photograph. 0
- countable noun picture Television pictures are the scenes which you see on a television screen. 0
- verb picture To be pictured somewhere, for example in a newspaper or magazine, means to appear in a photograph or picture. 0
- countable noun picture You can refer to a film as a picture. 0
- noun plural picture If you go to the pictures, you go to a cinema to see a film. 0
- countable noun picture If you have a picture of something in your mind, you have a clear idea or memory of it in your mind as if you were actually seeing it. 0
- verb picture If you picture something in your mind, you think of it and have such a clear memory or idea of it that you seem to be able to see it. 0
- countable noun picture A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like. 0
- singular noun picture When you refer to the picture in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there. 0
- noun picture a visual representation of something, such as a person or scene, produced on a surface, as in a photograph, painting, etc 0
- noun picture (as modifier) 0
- noun picture a mental image or impression 0
- noun picture a verbal description, esp one that is vivid 0
- noun picture a situation considered as an observable scene 0
- noun picture a person or thing that bears a close resemblance to another 0
- noun picture a person, scene, etc, considered as typifying a particular state or quality 0
- noun picture a beautiful person or scene 0
- noun picture a complete image on a television screen, comprising two interlaced fields 0
- noun picture a motion picture; film 0