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say it: PIK-chur
picture is a noun and verb meaning "a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface". It is pronounced /ˈpɪktʃɚ/ — PIK-chur. It carries 12 recorded senses.
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”
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”
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”
illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
“the dictionary had many pictures”
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”
the visible part of a television transmission
“they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone”
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”
a typical example of some state or quality
“the very picture of a modern general”
“she was the picture of despair”
a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for picture come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.