Dictionary

picture en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈpʰək.t͡ʃə] (New-Zealand)
• /ˈpək.t͡ʃə/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈpʰɪ.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪ.t͡ʃɹ̩] (informal, regional)
• (US) audio
• [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɹ̩] (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
• [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃə] (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/ (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
• /ˈpɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ (informal, regional)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English picture, from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.

Meanings

1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
   • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft. 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
   • Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. 2012 March 14, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
2. An image; a representation as in the imagination.
   • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams. 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
   • Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him[…]as being tall, commanding, and as the advance notices of him, a sliver-tongued orator. I found him, however, to be the opposite of my mental picture; short, squat, unpretentious[…]. 2007, The Workers' Republic:
   • My eyes make pictures when they are shut. 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream:
3. A painting.
   • There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
   • Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
4. A photograph.
   • It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership. 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
   • Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful / Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night 1967, “Pictures of Lily”, performed by The Who:
   • I took a picture of the church.
   • I've been looking so long at these pictures of you / That I almost believe that they're real 1989, “Pictures of You”, in Disintegration, performed by The Cure:
5. (India, dated) A motion picture.
   • "You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture." 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13:
   • Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
6. (in-plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
   • Let's go to the pictures.
7. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
   • Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in poor health for much of his presidency, even though his doctors, his family, and even journalists colluded to portray him as the picture of health. 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 114:
   • She's the very picture of health.
8. An attractive sight.
   • it was heartening to see a young Indian football team Mata had invited to Manchester. His face was a picture when he listened to the little footballers sing a team song for him. 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian:
   • The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
9. The art of painting; representation by painting.
   • any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture 1862, Henry Barnard, “Sir Henry Wotton”, in American Journal of Education:
10. A figure; a model.
    • the young king's picture[…]in virgin wax 1655, James Howell, “To my Brother Dr. Howell”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
11. Situation.
    • The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good.
    • You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture.
12. (Multicultural-London-English) A sample of an illegal drug.
    • If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.
13. A format string in the COBOL programming language.
    • The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution. 1997, John Barnes, Ada 95 Rationale: The Language - The Standard Libraries, page 390:
    • To recapitulate, the pictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character […] 1997, Roger Hutty, Mary Spence, Mastering COBOL Programming, page 20:

Forms

Deriveds

picture black (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture frame (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · enter the picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · telepicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · a picture is worth a thousand words (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture disc (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · overpicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pictures or it didn't happen (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · closet-picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · depicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture bride (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture box (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture palace (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · multipicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture plane (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · eigenpicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · word-picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturable (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture-winged fly (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturemaker (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture paper (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture lock (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · take a picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · mixed picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · road picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture-perfect (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · sun picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture desk (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · living picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · talking picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · Pictionary (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · dickture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · paint a rosy picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · counterpicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture editor (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · Heisenberg picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · world picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturise (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · get the picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture book (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture hat (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturedrome (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · in the picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturize (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pen-picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture dictionary (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · devil's picture books (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pictureless (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · out of the picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture day (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pictural (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · very picture of (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture tube (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture show (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · still picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · put someone in the picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pretty as a picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · big-picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture-skew (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · moving-picture theater (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture-in-picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturegraph (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · repicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturesque (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture framing (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture postcard (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture house (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturelike (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · bigger picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pictology (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture rod (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturemaking (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture message (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture rail (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture perfect (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pictureful (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · moving picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · a picture paints a thousand words (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturecraft (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · interaction picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture molding (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture messaging (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · desktop picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturer (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturesome (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · Schrödinger picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture white (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · B-picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pretty pictures (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture card (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · Dirac picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture sort (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturegoer (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · micropicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturedom (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picture window (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · picturephone (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · stereopicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · subpicture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · snare-picture (Terms derived from picture (noun)) · pen picture (Terms derived from picture (noun))

Descendants

piksa · pictiwr · pìkchël · pikchɔ · पिक्चर · ਪਿਕਚਰ · पिक्चर · pictour · picture · picha · Pikder · pikitia

Hyponyms

landscape · photo · oleograph · negative · portrait · chromolithograph · triptych · photograph · motion picture · miniature · diptych · sketch · print · drawing · silhouette · fresco · painting · stereogram · cartoon · icon · snapshot · illustration · big picture · polyptych · draft · cityscape · mosaic · silent picture · daub · cyclorama · panorama · outline · watercolor · pastel · oil painting · aquarelle

Relateds

frame · poster · canvas · postcard · gallery · tapestry

Synonyms

image (representation as in the imagination) · picture

Translations (380)

pl kino (cinema) · vi hình (photograph) · ka ფოტოგამოსახულება (photograph) · ca fotografia (photograph) · be во́браз (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · mr छायाचित्र (photograph) · nl prent (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ml പടം (photograph) · fa-ira صورَت (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · kmr teswîr (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru рису́нок (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · mi whakaahua (photograph) · cs snímek (photograph) · ka ფოტო (photograph) · sh fȍtka (photograph) · mr चित्रपट (cinema) · be карці́нка (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · th รูปภาพ (photograph) · ml ചിത്രം (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · de Film (cinema) · nl film (cinema) · de Abbildung (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · hi चित्र (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ckb وێنە (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · af foto (photograph) · ko 도화 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · mk кино (cinema) · uk фільм (cinema) · fo bílæt (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · nb bilde (photograph) · da billede (photograph) · bg ки́но (cinema) · ota رسم (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · kmr wêne (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · de Foto (photograph) · sq pikturë (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · af prent (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ca imatge (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · yai сурат (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · cmn 圖片 /图片 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ro fotografie (photograph) · alt билдӱр (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sv bild (photograph) · lb Biller (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ps تصوير (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · km រូបភាព (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · is mynd (cinema) · ru фотосни́мок (photograph) · ti ስእሊ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · he תְּמוּנָה (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · jv gambar (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · et pilt (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · bi pija (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · th รูปภาพ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · mk слика (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · mt sura (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ga pictiúr (photograph) · bn ছবি (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ka გამოსახულება (photograph) · eo fotografaĵo (photograph) · pl zdjęcie (photograph) · io imajo (photograph) · az şəkil (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · dng тўхуар (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · be карці́на (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ml ചിത്രം (photograph) · hi छबि (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh fotogràfija (photograph) · ro imagine (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · te ఫోటో (photograph) · mr फोटो (photograph) · is ljósmynd (photograph) · ar رَسْم (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · pt figura (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh òbrazac (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sk obraz (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · es fotografía (photograph) · alt картина (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ms gambar (photograph) · ru фотока́рточка (photograph) · cs obraz (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · es imagen (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · uk фо́тка (photograph) · uk фотозні́мок (photograph) · ar صُورَة (photograph) · kn ಚಿತ್ರ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ko 사진 (photograph) · sv fotografi (photograph) · ja 絵 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · bcl ladawan (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · af rolprent (cinema) · he תְּמוּנָה (photograph) · nv aheeskidígíí (photograph) · ug سۈرەت (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · hi चलचित्र (cinema) · lv bilde (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · cu образъ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · bg сни́мка (photograph) · mi atahanga (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · bg фотогра́фия (photograph) · tg тасвир (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · gd dealbh (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · hy նկար (photograph) · be фільм (cinema) · nl plaatje (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ml പടം (cinema) · sh fȉlm (cinema) · ru фо́тка (photograph) · mr प्रकाशचित्र (photograph) · el οπτική παράσταση (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · prs رَسْم (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · fr cinéma (cinema) · nan-hbl 圖 /图 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ja 映画 (cinema) · fr photo (photograph) · da foto (photograph) · mt kwadru (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · gu ચિત્ર (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · pt fotografia (photograph) · fa-ira رَسْم (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · is mynd (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ug رەسىم (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · el εικόνα (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · lo ຮູບ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · az təsvir (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · km រូប (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · kmr sûret (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · es foto (photograph) · my ကားရုပ် (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh о̀бразац (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · cy llun (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · my ရုပ်ပုံ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · os ныв (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · lt nuotrauka (photograph) · ru карти́на (cinema) · he סֶרֶט (cinema) · pl rysunek (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · te చిత్రం (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · io pikturo (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · apw eʼilzaa (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · be зды́мак (photograph) · tt рәсем (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru о́браз (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · af beeld (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · enm peynture (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sl film (cinema) · ky сүрөт (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · te బొమ్మ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ja 絵画 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · nb fotografi (photograph) · my ပုံ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · it foto (photograph) · vi tấm hình (photograph) · alt илик (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · io imajo (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · hi तस्वीर (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ko 그림 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · wa foto (photograph) · mn зураг (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · nl foto (photograph) · zyp hmang thlah (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · hu fénykép (photograph) · ta திரைப்படம் (cinema) · bg филм (cinema) · be кінафі́льм (cinema) · myv арт (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · enm ymage (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · mk слика (photograph) · et pilt (photograph) · ba һүрәт (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ca cinema (cinema) · os сурӕт (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · tr tasvir (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru фильм (cinema) · pl fotografia (photograph) · be фотазды́мак (photograph) · nl bios (cinema) · arz صورة (photograph) · el θέαμα (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru сни́мок (photograph) · se govva (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · pa ਤਸਵੀਰ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · it quadro (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru фо́то (photograph) · cmn 相片 (photograph) · bg о́браз (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · rm maletg (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · bg ки́нофи́лм (cinema) · nl figuur (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ur تَصْوِیر (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · es cine (cinema) · tr resim (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru кино́шка (cinema) · tl larawan (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · wa fime (cinema) · ta படம் (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · de Gemälde (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru кино́ (cinema) · ps انځور (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ka ნახატი (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · am ሥዕል (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · uz tasvir (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · as ছবি (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sl slika (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ar تَصْوِير (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · yi בילד (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · lt vaizdas (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · uz rasm (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · myv валдарт (photograph) · rsk слика (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh òbrazac (photograph) · pl obraz (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · bo རི་མོ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh slȉka (photograph) · pt imagem (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · prs تَصْوِیر (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · it immagine (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh фо̏тка (photograph) · nl cinema (cinema) · ml പടം (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh сли̏ка (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · wym obrozła (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ca foto (photograph) · lv fotogrāfija (photograph) · th ภาพ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · nl afbeelding (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · cy darlun (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · orv образъ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · eo foto (photograph) · ru карти́нка (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ja 写真 (photograph) · mk фотографија (photograph) · fi valokuva (photograph) · rue о́браз (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru кинокарти́на (cinema) · ast imaxen (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ta புகைப்படம் (photograph) · de Bild (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ar صُورَة شَمْسِيَّة (photograph) · cmn 照片 (photograph) · tab шикил (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · fa-ira تَصْویر (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · nl plaatje (photograph) · et film (cinema) · be фо́тка (photograph) · lt fotografija (photograph) · ka ფოტოსურათი (photograph) · arz صورة (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sa चित्र (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · cy llun (photograph) · cmn 圖畫 /图画 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ta படம் (cinema) · bg карти́на (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ang mēting (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · mn ᠵᠢᠷᠤᠭ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · da billede (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · af kiekie (photograph) · hy պատկեր (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · uk малю́нок (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · lv bilde (photograph) · sah хартыына (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ka სურათი (photograph) · be фо́та (photograph) · kk сурет (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sk fotografia (photograph) · mk фото (photograph) · kmr resm (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ko 영화 (cinema) · sh slȉka (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · lv attēls (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · kmr rism (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh о̀бразац (photograph) · uk о́браз (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ar تَصْوِيرَة (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · el κινηματογράφος (cinema) · cs film (cinema) · lo ຮູບພາບ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · prs صُورَت (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru фотогра́фия (photograph) · cy sinema (cinema) · hy նկար (cinema) · dtp gambal (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · oc imatge (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sv film (cinema) · be кіно́ (cinema) · id gambar (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · cs fotografie (photograph) · ba рәсем (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · fr image (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ps انځور (photograph) · tg сурат (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · it fotografia (photograph) · te చిత్రం (cinema) · hi छवि (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · nb bilde (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · hy նկար (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh фи̏лм (cinema) · ee nutata (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · uk карти́на (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · lo ພາບ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ce сурт (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · th ภาพถ่าย (photograph) · mr पिक्चर (cinema) · uk зні́мок (photograph) · pt cinema (cinema) · sl fotografija (photograph) · sw picha (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · wa imådje (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ms gambar (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · tab сурат (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · he תַּצְלוּם (photograph) · nl illustratie (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ko 회화 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · de Bild (photograph) · sk fotka (photograph) · tl larawan (photograph) · uk рису́нок (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · or ଛବି (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · nl portret (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · kl assi (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · tk surat (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · nn bilete (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · el φωτογραφία (photograph) · be фатагра́фія (photograph) · uk стрі́чка (cinema) · pt foto (photograph) · km គំនូរ (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · cs fotka (photograph) · th รูป (photograph) · ga pictiúr (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sv bild (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · tr çizim (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · be малю́нак (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru карти́на (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · rhg sóbi (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · tr fotoğraf (photograph) · de Kino (cinema) · uk зображення (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · gd dealbh (photograph) · la pictūra (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · pis piksa (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ga pictiúr (cinema) · ar صُورَة (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · mr चित्र (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · hu kép (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · pl film (cinema) · af fliek (cinema) · tg расм (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · hi चित्र (photograph) · uk фотогра́фія (photograph) · si පින්තූරය (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · fi elokuva (cinema) · my ကား (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · de Abbild (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · wa fotografeye (photograph) · dsb wobraz (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · uk фо́то (photograph) · sh сли̏ка (photograph) · vi hình ảnh (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · az rəsm (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · et foto (photograph) · eo bildo (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ml ചിത്രം (cinema) · cmn 畫 /画 (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sh фотогра̀фија (photograph) · fi kuva (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · ru изображе́ние (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · cs kino (cinema) · uk кіно́ (cinema) · uz surat (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · tt картина (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sv tavla (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · da fotografi (photograph) · uk світли́на (photograph) · uk кінофі́льм (cinema) · av сурат (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · sk film (cinema) · nb kino (cinema) · lez суьрет (representation of visible reality produced by drawing, etc) · bcl ladawan (photograph)

picture en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈpʰək.t͡ʃə] (New-Zealand)
• /ˈpək.t͡ʃə/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈpʰɪ.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪ.t͡ʃɹ̩] (informal, regional)
• (US) audio
• [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɹ̩] (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
• [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃə] (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/ (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
• /ˈpɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ (informal, regional)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English picture, from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
   • What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient had pictured herself as a much younger woman 1966, Margaret Naumburg, Dynamically oriented art therapy, page 154:
   • Anyone "skilled in the art" could see from their language that Lemp and Wightman had not invented or patented the invention their draftsman had pictured. 1999, Lisa Gitelman, Scripts, grooves, and writing machines, page 107:
   • while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut. 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, page 130:
2. (transitive) To imagine or envision.
   • Now that he had seen him once, he could picture the fish swimming in the water with his purple pectoral fins set wide as wings and the great erect tail slicing through the dark. 1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 67:
   • If you can picture this—a day in December / Picture this—freezing cold weather / You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids 1978, “Picture This”, in Debbie Harry (lyrics), Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:
   • Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies 1967, Lennon–McCartney, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band:
3. (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.
   • A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had. 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:
   • Many rock paintings picture various species of fish. 1989, Jan Jelínek, The great art of the early Australians, page 490:
   • Drawing is picturing people, places, and things with line. 1985, Edmund Burke Feldman, Thinking about art, page 252:
   • The sketch pictured here takes in the whole scene. 2004, Helen South, The everything drawing book, page 75:
   • I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose. 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Watches:

Forms

Relateds

Wiktionary:Picture dictionary · pictorial · depict · depiction

Translations (27)

af foto neem (to take a picture of) · de fotographieren (to take a picture of) · bg представям си (to imagine or envision) · ta நினை (to imagine or envision) · fi kuvitella (to imagine or envision) · af verbeel (to imagine or envision) · ru представлять (to imagine or envision) · de etwas vorstellen (to imagine or envision) · no forestille seg (to imagine or envision) · ta கற்பனை செய் (to imagine or envision) · ml ചിത്രമെടുക്കുക (to take a picture of) · hu képzel (to imagine or envision) · de ein Foto machen (to take a picture of) · bg изобразявам (to take a picture of) · lv iztēloties (to imagine or envision) · hu elképzel (to imagine or envision) · nl zich verbeelden (to imagine or envision) · ta படம்பிடி (to take a picture of) · he דמיין \ דִּמְיֵן (to imagine or envision) · ml പടമെടുക്കുക (to take a picture of) · eo imagi (to imagine or envision) · cs představovat si (to imagine or envision) · hu ábrázol (to take a picture of) · ta படமெடு (to take a picture of) · bg рисувам (to take a picture of) · no fotografere (to take a picture of) · eo bildigi (to take a picture of)