Definitions for picture

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picture pic·ture

Spelling: [pik-cher]

IPA: /ˈpɪk tʃər/

Picture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in picture (ceiprtu).

Definitions for picture

noun

1. a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.:
2. any visible image, however produced:
3. a mental image:
4. a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version.
5. a tableau, as in theatrical representation.
6. motion picture.
7. pictures, Informal: Older Use. movies.
8. a person, thing, group, or scene regarded as resembling a work of pictorial art in beauty, fineness of appearance, etc.:
9. the image or perfect likeness of someone else:
10. a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition:
11. a situation or set of circumstances:
12. the image on a computer monitor, the viewing screen of a television set, or a motion-picture screen.

verb (used with object)

1. to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing.
2. to form a mental picture of; imagine:
3. to depict in words; describe graphically:
4. to present or create as a setting; portray:

Origin of picture

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin pictūra the act of painting, a painting, equivalent to pict(us) (past participle of pingere to paint) + -ūra

Examples for picture

But now the picture that drifted through his mind was still more horrible.

Elle magazine shot an editorial in September, one picture revealing a teacup pig sitting pretty by a mini Tyler Alexandra bag.

Then there was an event, an HRC event, and I took a picture with Monique, the actress and comedian.

As a last rally, he tried to picture the difficulties he might encounter.

Like everything else in that neighborhood, it was covered with picture writing.

There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”

I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.

How different a picture would the streets and public places then present!

We want to give the families and the other cops, too, as clear a picture as we can.

There was less diversity of opinion in regard to Elinor's picture.