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picture

noun
/ˈpɪk.t͡ʃəː/UK/ˈpɘk.t͡ʃɘː//ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.

  1. derived from pictūra
  2. derived from picture
  3. inherited from pycture

Definitions

  1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper,…

    A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

  2. An image

    An image; a representation as in the imagination.

    • My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

  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.
  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. A photograph.

      • I took a picture of the church.
      • 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.
      • Pictures of Lily made my life so wonderful / Pictures of Lily helped me sleep at night

    2. A motion picture.

      • Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
      • "You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture."

    3. ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).

      • Let's go to the pictures.

    4. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).

      • She's the very picture of health.
      • 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.

    5. An attractive sight.

      • The garden is a real picture at this time of year.
      • 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.

    6. The art of painting

      The art of painting; representation by painting.

      • any well-expressed image[…]either in picture or sculpture

    7. A figure

      A figure; a model.

      • the young king's picture[…]in virgin wax

    8. 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.

    9. A sample of an illegal drug.

      • If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture.

    10. 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.
      • To recapitulate, the pictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character […]

    11. To represent in or with a picture.

      • 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.
      • What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient had pictured herself as a much younger woman
      • 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.

    12. To imagine or envision.

      • Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
      • 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

    13. To depict or describe vividly.

      • Drawing is picturing people, places, and things with line.
      • Many rock paintings picture various species of fish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at picture. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at picture. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at picture

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA