HOW TO PRONOUNCE
picture
/ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/
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What does picture mean?
noun
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- A painting.
More meanings (13)
noun
- A photograph.
- (informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
- A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
- An attractive sight.
- The art of painting; representation by painting.
- A figure; a model.
- Situation.
- A sample of an illegal drug.
- A format string in the COBOL programming language.
- (dated) A motion picture.
verb
- To represent in or with a picture.
- To imagine or envision.
- To depict or describe vividly.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/
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See this word in context.
The economy has presented a picture of moderate but slowing growth against a background of underlying weaknesses in technology and worker motivation.
The passage was dark, and, by contrast with the picture the window frame enclosed, the side of the room seemed impenetrably dark.
More book examples (3)
How could a face, a familiar face, become so the picture of hope, be painted with the very colors of youth’s exaltation?
She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows, with her eyes astar with dreams.
Malbone’s miniature, though from the same original, was far inferior to Hepzibah’s air-drawn picture, at which affection and sorrowful remembrance wrought together.