picture

picture
    n 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"; "a movie is a series of images
         projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn:
         {picture}, {image}, {icon}, {ikon}]
    2: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by
       applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso";
       "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang
       in the Louvre" [syn: {painting}, {picture}]
    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"; "the events left a permanent
       impression in his mind" [syn: {mental picture}, {picture},
       {impression}]
    4: a situation treated as an observable object; "the political
       picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has
       changed in the last century" [syn: {picture}, {scene}]
    5: illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the
       dictionary had many pictures" [syn: {picture}, {pictorial
       matter}]
    6: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a
       sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous
       movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the
       film was shot on location" [syn: {movie}, {film}, {picture},
       {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" [syn:
       {video}, {picture}]
    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"; "the pamphlet
       contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn:
       {word picture}, {word-painting}, {delineation}, {depiction},
       {picture}, {characterization}, {characterisation}]
    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 [syn: {photograph}, {photo}, {exposure},
        {picture}, {pic}]
    v 1: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him
         on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a
         risk in this strategy" [syn: {visualize}, {visualise},
         {envision}, {project}, {fancy}, {see}, {figure}, {picture},
         {image}]
    2: show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country
       life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much
       tenderness in this painting" [syn: {picture}, {depict},
       {render}, {show}]
    

Picture \Pic"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pictured}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Picturing}.]
   To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to
   represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring
   before the mind. "I . . . do picture it in my mind."
   --Spenser.
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         I have not seen him so pictured.         --Shak.
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Picture \Pic"ture\, n. [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to
   paint: cf. F. peinture. See {Paint}.]
   1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]
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            Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or
            sculpture.                            --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.
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   2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a
      building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced
      by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography,
      etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure;
      a model.
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            Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
                                                  --Bacon.
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            The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.
                                                  --Howell.
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   3. An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the
      eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings
      vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the
      picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
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            My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
                                                  --Coleridge.
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   Note: Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming
         self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or
         picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture
         seller or picture-seller, etc.
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   {Animated picture}, a moving picture.

   {Picture gallery}, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to
      the exhibition of pictures.

   {Picture red}, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a
      room, from which pictures are hung.

   {Picture writing}.
      (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing
          messages, by means of pictures representing the
          actions or circumstances in question. --Tylor.
      (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture
          writing of the American Indians.
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   Syn: {Picture}, {Painting}.

   Usage: Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is
          a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors,
          pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is
          a picture made by means of colored paints, usually
          applied moist with a brush.
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PICTURE, n.  A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome
in three.

    "Behold great Daubert's picture here on view --
    Taken from Life."  If that description's true,
    Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too.
                                                             Jali Hane
    

image
picture
range

   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.

   {Images} are usually taken from the real world via a {digital
   camera}, {frame grabber}, or {scanner}; or they may be
   generated by computer, e.g. by {ray tracing} software.

   See also {image formats}, {image processing}.

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   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}.

   (2000-01-19)
    

452 Moby Thesaurus words for "picture":
      3-D, CRT spot, Cinemascope, Cinerama, DM display, Doppler signal,
      IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, Technicolor, Telephoto,
      Vorstellung, Western, Wirephoto, abstract, abstraction,
      aerial photograph, ally, altarpiece, alter ego, analogon, analogue,
      animated cartoon, approach, arrangement, artwork, associate,
      attack, badge, banner, beam, beat signal, black spot,
      black-and-white film, black-and-white photograph, blips,
      block print, bloom, blooping, blueprint, blueprinting, bounces,
      brass tacks, bring to life, brother, calculation, call to mind,
      call up, cameo, candid photograph, carbon copy, cartoon, catalog,
      cataloging, catch a likeness, certified copy, chalk, character,
      character sketch, characteristic, characterization, characterize,
      charcoal, chart, charting, cheesecake, chiller, chronophotograph,
      cine, cinema, close copy, close match, cognate, collage, color,
      color film, color photograph, color print, companion, complement,
      concept, conception, conceptualization, congenator, congener,
      conjure up, contrivance, coordinate, copy, correlate, correlative,
      correspondent, counterfeit, counterpart, crayon, creepie,
      crosshatch, cyclorama, dash off, daub, dead ringer, definition,
      delineate, delineation, depict, depiction, describe, description,
      design, details, device, diagram, diapositive, differentia,
      diptych, display, disposition, documentary, documentary film,
      doodle, double, double-dot display, draft, draw, drawing,
      duplicate, earmark, echo, echo signal, ectype, educational film,
      effigy, eidetic image, embodiment, engraving, enterprise, envisage,
      envisagement, envisaging, envision, envisioning, epitome,
      equivalent, essence, essential facts, essentials, evocation, evoke,
      exact likeness, express, eyeful, facsimile, fair copy,
      faithful copy, fake, fancy, feature, fellow, figuring, film, flare,
      flick, flicker, foresight, forethought, forgery, fresco,
      fringe area, game, ghost, give words to, granulation,
      graphic account, graphing, grid, ground plan, guidelines, hallmark,
      hard shadow, hatch, heliochrome, heliograph, hit off,
      horror picture, horse opera, icon, idea, idiosyncrasy, idol,
      illumination, illustrate, illustration, image, imagery,
      imagery study, imagine, imaging, imagism, imitation, impression,
      incarnation, index, indicant, indicator, insignia, intention,
      interpret, itemization, just see, keynote, kindred spirit, layout,
      lifelike image, like, likeness, limn, limning, lineup,
      living image, living picture, local oscillator signal,
      long-range plan, map, mapping, mark, master plan, match, mate,
      measure, mental image, mental picture, mental representation,
      method, methodology, miniature, mirroring, model, montage, mosaic,
      motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, mug,
      mug shot, multiple image, mural, near duplicate, newsreel, noise,
      notate, note, notion, nudie, objectification, objectify, obverse,
      operations research, organization, outline, output signal, paint,
      paint a picture, painting, panorama, parallel, particularization,
      pasticcio, pastiche, peculiarity, pencil, pendant, personification,
      phony, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photodrama,
      photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural,
      photoplay, picture noise, picture shifts, picture show, picturing,
      picturize, pinup, pips, plan, planning, planning function, poem,
      poetic imagery, pornographic film, portrait, portraiture, portray,
      portrayal, prearrangement, presentment, preview, print, procedure,
      profile, program, program of action, property, prototype,
      radar signal, rain, rationalization, reading, realize, reciprocal,
      reflection, register, render, rendering, rendition, represent,
      representation, representative, reproduction, resemblance, return,
      return signal, ringer, rolling, rub, rubbing, scanning pattern,
      schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, schematize, scheme,
      scheme of arrangement, scintillation, scratch, scumble, seal,
      second self, see, semblance, set forth, setup, shade, shading,
      shadow, short, shot, show, sigil, sign, signal, signal display,
      signature, silent, silent film, similitude, simulacrum, sister,
      sketch, skin flick, slide, snap, snapshot, sneak preview, snow,
      snowstorm, soul mate, spaghetti Western, specification, spit,
      spit and image, spitting image, spot, stained glass window, stamp,
      stencil, still, still life, still photograph, strategic plan,
      strategy, such, suchlike, summon up, sure sign, symbolize, symptom,
      system, systematization, tableau, tactical plan, tactics,
      take a rubbing, talkie, talking picture, tally, tapestry,
      target image, telephotograph, telltale sign, the big picture,
      the data, the details, the dope, the facts, the information,
      the like of, the likes of, the particulars, the picture, the scoop,
      the score, the specifics, the whole story, thing of beauty,
      thriller, tint, trace, trace out, trace over, tracing, trailer,
      trait, transmitter signal, transparency, triptych, twin,
      underground film, understanding, very image, very picture,
      video signal, vignette, vision, visual image, visualization,
      visualize, vivid description, wall painting, way, word painting,
      word-painting, working plan, write