picture 的 2 个定义
- a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water.
- a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day.
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pic·tured, pic·tur·ing.
- to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing.
- to form a mental picture of; imagine: He couldn't picture himself doing such a thing.
- to depict in words; describe graphically: He pictured Rome so vividly that you half-believed you were there.
- to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future.
picture 近义词
perfect example
picture 的近义词 6 个
illustration, likeness of something
picture 的近义词 44 个
- account
- art
- cartoon
- copy
- depiction
- description
- drawing
- figure
- icon
- image
- impression
- painting
- photo
- photograph
- piece
- portrait
- portrayal
- report
- sketch
- statue
- blueprint
- canvas
- delineation
- doodle
- double
- draft
- duplicate
- effigy
- engraving
- outline
- panorama
- presentment
- re-creation
- replica
- representation
- ringer
- similitude
- simulacrum
- spectacle
- tableau
- twin
- lookalike
- spitting image
picture 的反义词 1 个
entertainment film
depict, describe
form vision in one's mind
由picture构成的短语
- picture is worth a thousand words, one
- get the message (picture)
- in the picture
- pretty as a picture
- take a picture
- the picture
更多picture例句
- Exclude the blue states, and the economic picture shifts dramatically.
- However, a complete picture of their clinical effect remains unclear.
- It also seems like the legacy of the Olympic Games is completely left out of the picture.
- Smith shared a picture of him setting next to Hubert—a monumental occasion considering the two hadn’t sat down with each other in 27 years.
- Those pictures can really boost your memory of this material.
- The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.
- That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.
- There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”
- I noticed a picture of her daughter, who was my classmate, and out of curiosity visited her page.
- We want to give the families and the other cops, too, as clear a picture as we can.
- She looked from the picture to her daughter, with a frightful glare, in their before mild aspect.
- Each picture bore a label, giving a true description of the once-honoured gem.
- And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.
- Mr. Agnew saw the picture, recognised its merit, and wrote a cheque for the full amount asked.
- A furious controversy concerning this picture had arisen among art critics.
Where does picture come from?
A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words. But what about the word picture? We’re not going to write a thousand words on picture—although we could. Believe us when we say we could. So, here’s a briefer word picture on the origin of this versatile word.
In its most general sense, a picture is a visual representation of something, especially in the form of a painting, drawing, photograph, or the like. A picture can also refer to a mental image, among other senses. One meaning of picture, as a verb, is “to represent something in a picture or pictorially”—pictorial being a related adjective form variously used to refer to pictures.
The word picture entered English around 1375–1425, borrowed directly from the Latin word pictūra, “the act of painting, a painting.” The word is based on pict, the past participle of the verb pingere, meaning “to paint.” The verb could also mean “to draw, embroider, represent,” among other senses. The second part of pictūra is -ūra, a noun suffix represented as -ure in English. See our entry at –ure to learn more about this suffix.
Dig deeper
The meaning of the word picture has been very stable in English. Just as it originally did in the late 1300s, a picture can still refer to a drawing or painting— whether it’s your kid’s crayon-scrawled family portrait on your fridge or Leonardo DaVinci’s Mona Lisa in the Louvre. Both are masterpieces, as far as we’re concerned. Please note, though, that when referring to formal or professional works, we often use the name of the medium, with picture referring to more informal or amateur creations.
But picture has also been remarkably adaptable, readily lending itself to images created by new technologies: photography, cinema, TV, and all the pictures we take on our smartphones and post on social media.
The word movie—it’s easy to forget in an age of Netflix streaming and viral TikTok videos—is shortened from the phrase moving picture. And what are digital images composed of? Tiny pixels. That word is based on pix, a variant of pics, a common shortening of picture. A picture, we might say today, is worth thousands of pixels.