Picture /(?)/

Pic·ture

Picture

n.
  1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]
    Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture.
  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.
    Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
    The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.
  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.
    My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Phrases & Compounds
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
The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question
Syn. -- Picture, Painting.

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.

Picture

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Pictured; p. pr. & vb. n. Picturing

  1. 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 have not seen him so pictured.