Wondering how to hyphenate the English word picture ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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A situation treated as an observable object The political picture is favorable The religious scene in England has changed in the last century |
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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 They went to a movie every Saturday night The film was shot on location |
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The visible part of a television transmission They could still receive the sound but the picture was gone |
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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 |
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A typical example of some state or quality The very picture of a modern general She was the picture of despair |
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A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide Recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material |
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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 |
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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 |
| noun | image, icon, ikon, representation |
| noun | painting, graphic art
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| noun | mental picture, impression, image, mental image
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| noun | scene, situation, state of affairs
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| noun | pictorial matter, illustration |
| noun | movie, film, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick, show |
| noun | video, visual communication
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| noun | word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, characterization, characterisation, description, verbal description
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| noun | typification, exemplification |
| verb | visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, image, imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage |
| verb | depict, render, show, represent, interpret |