What is another word for picture?
Synonyms for picture
ˈpɪk tʃərpic·ture
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Wiktionary
pictureverb
To imagine or envision.
Synonyms:
image
English Synonyms and Antonyms
picture
A sketch is a rough, suggestive presentation of anything, whether graphic or literary, commonly intended to be preliminary to a more complete or extended treatment. An outline gives only the bounding or determining lines of a figure or a scene; a sketch may give not only lines, but shading and color, but is hasty and incomplete. The lines of a sketch are seldom so full and continuous as those of an outline, being, like the shading or color, little more than indications or suggestions according to which a finished picture may be made; the artist's first representation of a sunset, the hues of which change so rapidly, must of necessity be a sketch. Draft and plan apply especially to mechanical drawing, of which outline, sketch, and drawing are also used; a plan is strictly a view from above, as of a building or machine, giving the lines of a horizontal section, originally at the level of the ground, now in a wider sense at any height; as, a plan of the cellar; a plan of the attic. A mechanical drawing is always understood to be in full detail; a draft is an incomplete or unfinished drawing; a design is such a preliminary sketch as indicates the object to be accomplished or the result to be attained, and is understood to be original. One may make a drawing of any well-known mechanism, or a drawing from another man's design; but if he says, "The design is mine," he claims it as his own invention or composition. In written composition an outline gives simply the main divisions, and in the case of a sermon is often called a skeleton; a somewhat fuller suggestion of illustration, treatment, and style is given in a sketch. A lawyer's brief is a succinct statement of the main facts involved in a case, and of the main heads of his argument on points of law, with reference to authorities cited; the brief has none of the vagueness of a sketch, being sufficiently exact and complete to form, on occasion, the basis for the decision of the court without oral argument, when the case is said to be "submitted on brief." Compare DESIGN.
Synonyms:
brief, design, draft, drawing, outline, plan, skeleton, sketch
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
picture, image, icon, ikonnoun
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"
Synonyms:
figure, flick, look-alike, video, figure of speech, mental picture, range, paradigm, film, epitome, moving picture, simulacrum, impression, depiction, characterization, effigy, motion-picture show, mental image, trope, ikon, scene, movie, characterisation, word-painting, pic, delineation, double, exposure, image, persona, photo, range of a function, motion picture, pictorial matter, photograph, icon, prototype, painting, word picture, moving-picture show, picture showpainting, picturenoun
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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delineation, video, painting, motion-picture show, scene, mental picture, pictorial matter, movie, moving-picture show, ikon, icon, pic, exposure, house painting, image, photograph, depiction, word-painting, characterization, characterisation, word picture, film, motion picture, photo, picture show, flick, moving picture, impressionmental picture, picture, impressionnoun
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"
Synonyms:
belief, flick, stamp, video, mental picture, imprint, film, moving picture, impression, depiction, printing, characterization, effect, motion-picture show, opinion, ikon, movie, scene, delineation, characterisation, word-painting, pic, exposure, image, photo, motion picture, pictorial matter, notion, photograph, icon, depression, feeling, painting, word picture, moving-picture show, picture showpicture, scenenoun
a situation treated as an observable object
"the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
Synonyms:
prospect, flick, video, aspect, setting, film, tantrum, view, fit, moving picture, vista, impression, depiction, characterization, motion-picture show, pic, ikon, scene, scenery, movie, characterisation, panorama, word-painting, shot, mental picture, delineation, exposure, image, conniption, photo, motion picture, pictorial matter, photograph, icon, painting, word picture, moving-picture show, picture showpicture, pictorial matternoun
illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
"the dictionary had many pictures"
Synonyms:
delineation, video, scene, motion-picture show, mental picture, characterisation, movie, moving-picture show, ikon, icon, pic, exposure, pictorial matter, image, depiction, word-painting, characterization, photo, photograph, film, motion picture, painting, picture show, flick, word picture, moving picture, impressionmovie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flicknoun
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"
Synonyms:
delineation, cinema, moving-picture show, impression, motion-picture show, scene, mental picture, characterisation, movie, flick, ikon, icon, pic, exposure, pictorial matter, image, photograph, plastic film, word-painting, photo, depiction, painting, characterization, video, word picture, film, motion picture, photographic film, picture show, moving picture, celluloidvideo, picturenoun
the visible part of a television transmission
"they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
Synonyms:
delineation, impression, painting, motion-picture show, scene, mental picture, characterisation, video recording, movie, moving-picture show, ikon, icon, pic, exposure, pictorial matter, image, photograph, depiction, word-painting, flick, characterization, video, word picture, film, motion picture, photo, picture show, moving picture, telecasting, televisionword picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisationnoun
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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personation, portrayal, flick, portraying, mental picture, film, moving picture, depicting, impression, depiction, limning, characterization, motion-picture show, video, ikon, movie, scene, delineation, characterisation, word-painting, pic, line drawing, exposure, image, photo, motion picture, pictorial matter, photograph, icon, enactment, painting, word picture, moving-picture show, picture showpicturenoun
a typical example of some state or quality
"the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
Synonyms:
delineation, video, scene, motion-picture show, mental picture, characterisation, movie, moving-picture show, ikon, icon, pic, exposure, pictorial matter, image, depiction, word-painting, characterization, photo, photograph, film, motion picture, painting, picture show, flick, word picture, moving picture, impressionphotograph, photo, exposure, picture, picverb
a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
Synonyms:
delineation, video, painting, motion-picture show, scene, photo, characterisation, movie, moving-picture show, ikon, icon, pic, exposure, pictorial matter, image, depiction, word-painting, word picture, mental picture, characterization, photograph, film, motion picture, vulnerability, picture show, flick, moving picture, impressionvisualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, imageverb
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"
Synonyms:
ensure, project, interpret, examine, look, experience, get word, visualise, watch, assure, image, fancy, run across, go steady, protrude, learn, cast, run into, enter, discover, escort, jut, pick up, visit, reckon, jut out, consider, forecast, come across, cypher, get a line, externalize, get wind, contrive, take care, calculate, control, ascertain, insure, attend, compute, date, realize, see, check, stick out, foresee, meet, propose, witness, go for, count on, catch, construe, design, estimate, regard, visualize, plan, find, work out, go through, take in, view, take to, throw, hear, render, externalise, go out, envision, determine, see to it, encounter, figure, find out, cipher, understand, depict, show, send off, realisepicture, depict, render, showverb
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"
Synonyms:
supply, figure, express, hand over, demo, try, exhibit, register, show, return, establish, depict, shew, deliver, fork over, fork up, present, read, indicate, evidence, point, record, furnish, see, testify, fancy, translate, visualize, usher, give, envision, turn in, designate, limn, show up, render, evince, provide, prove, image, yield, demonstrate, portray, fork out, draw, visualise, generate, describe, interpret, project, submit, bear witness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
picturenoun
picturenoun
Synonyms:
image, resemblance, semblance, likeness, representation, similitudepictureverb
Synonyms:
paint, draw, represent, delineate, form an image of
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
picturenoun
Synonyms:
drawing, painting, engraving, half- tone, photograph, print, miniature, daguerreotype, chromo, icon, chromotype, mezzotint, pastel, lithograph, lithotint, cartoon, sketch, etching, chromolithograph, pasticcio, tableau, portrait, illustration, cyclorama, silhouette, carte-de-visite, minette, caricature, vignette, draught, aquarelle, thermotype, tintype, ambrotype, cabinet, heliograph, chrysotype, photogravure, oleograph, cut, negative, study, likeness, scene, landscape, view, stereogram, stereograph, panorama, aristotype, heliotype, diorama, diaphanotype, decalcomania, mosaic, photoengraving, inconographpictureverb
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "picture":
image, photo, photograph, portrait, panorama, table, images, illustration, film, movie, overview, idea, landscape, pictures, img, photos, vision, situation, portrayal, framework, photography, imagine, imaging, drawing, painting, scene, 'image, profile, imagery, scenario
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How to use picture in a sentence?
I think this is a pretty grim picture, in part because Putin didn’t feel deterred in the first place, the other thing is that Putin also feels that he has a lot of support from the rest of the world, including from China … it may very well take countries like China, pushing Russia, for there to be any break in Putin’s resolve.
We still have a ways to go to have a fuller picture of what the situation looks like in the mind of the prosecutors here.
To come out, and really not know how things are going to go, find your rhythm well early on, do the fundamentals well, dictate the match, I ’m very pleased with that, when I look at the overall picture of my progress, development, I have to be very pleased. I’ve incorporated a lot of new things in my game. I ’m getting more efficient coming forward at the net and I think I ’m able to put more and more pressure on my opponents.
Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live":
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
From the beginning, this administration has sent the message that State John Sullivan will no longer prioritize efforts to hold the global community to account for human rights, reports of the omission of key passages pertaining to sexual and reproductive rights, women's rights and the rights of marginalized populations, combined with the Administration's deference to known human rights violators like the governments of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, make us skeptical that these reports present a full picture of human rights around the world.
Translations for picture
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- beeldAfrikaans
- صُورَة, تَصْوِير, صُورَة شَمْسِيَّة, رَسْمArabic
- şəkil, təsvir, rəsmAzerbaijani
- һүрәт, рәсемBashkir
- карці́нка, карці́наBelarusian
- карти́наBulgarian
- ছবিBengali
- cinema, foto, fotografiaCatalan, Valencian
- obraz, fotka, kino, snímek, fotografie, představovatCzech
- darlun, llun, sinemaWelsh
- foto, billede, fotografiDanish
- Kino, Film, Bild, Gemälde, Abbildung, Foto, Abbild, vorstellen, fotographierenGerman
- nutataEwe
- θέαμα, κινηματογράφος, εικόνα, φωτογραφία, οπτική παράστασηGreek
- bildoEsperanto
- imagen, cine, fotografía, fotoSpanish
- pilt, pildidEstonian
- تصویرPersian
- elokuva, valokuva, kuva, kuvitellaFinnish
- image, photo, cinémaFrench
- pictiúrIrish
- dealbhScottish Gaelic
- תְּמוּנָה, סֶרֶט, תַּצְלוּם, דמייןHebrew
- चित्र, तस्वीरHindi
- kép, fényképHungarian
- նկար, պատկերArmenian
- gambarIndonesian
- imajoIdo
- mynd, ljósmyndIcelandic
- quadro, foto, fotografia, immagineItalian
- תְמוּנָהHebrew
- 絵, 映画館, 絵画, 写真, 画像Japanese
- ნახატიGeorgian
- суретKazakh
- គំនូរ, រូបភាពKhmer
- ಚಿತ್ರKannada
- 寫真, 사진, 그림Korean
- وێنهKurdish
- сүрөтKyrgyz
- picturaeLatin
- BillerLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ພາບLao
- vaizdasLithuanian
- attēls, bildeLatvian
- фо́то, сли́ка, ки́но, фотогра́фијаMacedonian
- зурагMongolian
- gambarMalay
- ကားရုပ်, ကား, ပုံBurmese
- bios, plaatje, portret, figuur, film, prent, foto, afbeelding, cinema, illustratieDutch
- bileteNorwegian Nynorsk
- bilde, kino, forestille seg, fotografereNorwegian
- aheeskidígííNavajo, Navaho
- obraz, kino, zdjęcie, fotografiaPolish
- figura, imagem, cinema, fotografia, fotoPortuguese
- maletgRomansh
- imagine, fotografieRomanian
- фильм, фо́тка, кино́шка, карти́на, о́браз, фотока́рточка, изображе́ние, кинокарти́на, фотогра́фия, карти́нка, фо́то, кино́Russian
- चित्रSanskrit
- obrazac, fotografija, slika, слика, образац, fotka, filmSerbo-Croatian
- පින්තූරයSinhala, Sinhalese
- obrazSlovak
- fotografija, film, slikaSlovene
- pikturëAlbanian
- fotografi, tavla, film, bildSwedish
- படம்Tamil
- ఫోటో, బొమ్మ, చిత్రంTelugu
- тасвирTajik
- ภาพ, รูป, รูปภาพ, ภาพถ่ายThai
- suratTurkmen
- larawanTagalog
- çizim, resim, tasvirTurkish
- картина, рәсемTatar
- رەسىمUyghur, Uighur
- картинаUkrainian
- تصویرUrdu
- rasm, suratUzbek
- hình, hình ảnh, tấm hìnhVietnamese
- imådje, fime, fotografeye, fotoWalloon
- בילדYiddish
- 图片Chinese
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