PICTURE
\pˈɪkt͡ʃə], \pˈɪktʃə], \p_ˈɪ_k_tʃ_ə]\
Definitions of PICTURE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a visual representation of an object or scene or person 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"
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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"
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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"
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a typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
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the visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
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a situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
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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"
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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"
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a typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
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the visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
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a situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
By Princeton University
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The art of painting; representation by painting.
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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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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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To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
By Oddity Software
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The art of painting; representation by painting.
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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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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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To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
By Noah Webster.
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A painting, drawing, etc., of a person, object, scene, or incident; a likeness or image; a mental image; bodily representation; as he was the picture of despair; vivid description in words.
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To represent in a painting, etc.; to describe vividly; to form a mental image of.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A painting: a likeness in colors: a drawing: painting: a resemblance: an image.
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To paint, to represent by painting: to form an ideal likeness of: to describe vividly.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To represent, as by a painting or drawing; depict.
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A representation by lines or colors, as a drawing, engraving, painting, or photograph; image; resemblance.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A painting or drawing exhibiting the resemblance of anything; a likeness; representation; description.
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To paint or draw resemblances; to represent; to describe vividly.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.