Definitions for pictures

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pictures pic·ture

Spelling: [pik-cher]

IPA: /ˈpɪk tʃər/

Pictures is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 463 anagrams from letters in pictures (ceiprstu).

Definitions for pictures

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.
13. a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.:
14. any visible image, however produced:
15. a mental image:
16. a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version.
17. a tableau, as in theatrical representation.
18. motion picture.
19. pictures, Informal: Older Use. movies.
20. a person, thing, group, or scene regarded as resembling a work of pictorial art in beauty, fineness of appearance, etc.:
21. the image or perfect likeness of someone else:
22. a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition:
23. a situation or set of circumstances:
24. 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:
5. to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing.
6. to form a mental picture of; imagine:
7. to depict in words; describe graphically:
8. to present or create as a setting; portray:

Origin of pictures

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 pictures

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.

Afterward, the graduates posed for pictures with their families.

The pictures of Gilkes emphasize, quite rightly and inevitably, his classic good looks.

So I got my first idea of what a book contained by the pictures in a spelling-book.

The pictures which would melt even the hardest of Republcian hearts were taken at the end of November.

These were the first pictures that Ben had ever seen, except those of his own drawing.

When she got the pictures back, she met Sean for coffee and discussed how to exhibit the photos.

At last we got through all the rooms and all the pictures, and came out into the gardens.

Lee and Coogan did briefly meet with the pope, with pictures to prove it, but no one at the Vatican officially screened the film.

Mulready's illustrations of 1843 are here referred to, net his pictures.

pictures also are occasionally exhibited for his instruction.