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picture

nounverb /pɪkʧər/ 2 syllables 7 letters Scrabble 11 WWF 14
Definitions
noun

graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

“his pictures hang in the Louvre”

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the visible part of a television transmission

“they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone”

noun

a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

noun

a typical example of some state or quality

“the very picture of a modern general”

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”

noun

a situation treated as an observable object

“the political picture is favorable”

verb

show in, or as in, a picture

noun

illustrations used to decorate or explain a text

“the dictionary had many pictures”

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a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

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a graphic or vivid verbal description

“too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures”

noun

a clear and telling mental image

“he described his mental picture of his assailant”

verb

imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

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