picture

Forms

1.A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- Did Tom draw this picture by himself?
- I wonder where to hang this picture that Tom gave me.
- I had Tom take my picture.
2.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.A photograph.
- I took a picture of the church.

1.To imagine or envision.
2.To depict or describe vividly.
- The sketch pictured here takes in the whole scene.
- Many rock paintings picture various species of fish.
- Drawing is picturing people, places, and things with line.
3.To represent in or with a picture.
- 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.

Common· #583

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

Doublet of pictura.