Use the verb picture if you want people to imagine something vividly in their minds. If your story about your principal and some chickens is descriptive enough, your friends can picture the whole incident.
The art of painting; representation by painting.
Noun
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"
Noun
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) 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"
Noun
a typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
Noun
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"
Noun
the visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
Noun
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
Noun
illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures"
Noun
a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
Noun
a situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
Verb
imagine; conceive of; see in one''s mind; "I can''t see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
Verb
show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
n.
The art of painting; representation by painting.
n.
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.
n.
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.
v. t.
To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to
represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the
mind.
Picture
Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture.2.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.3.
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
Picture
I have not seen him so pictured.
The art of painting; representation by painting.
To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
Usage Examples
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A picture is a poem without words.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
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Other Usage ExamplesBut by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
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