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单词 picturing
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picturingn.

Brit. /ˈpɪktʃ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪk(t)ʃərɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: picture v., -ing suffix1; picture n., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < picture v. + -ing suffix1, and partly < picture n. + -ing suffix1.
1. Formation or expression of a mental picture, esp. through vivid or graphic description in words; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining
imagination1340
conceptiona1387
imaginingc1430
suppositiona1529
conceiving1559
picturing1562
conceiting1563
fancy1581
forgery1582
surmise1592
imagery1595
imaging1648
ideation1818
envisagement1877
visualizing1880
envisaging1883
visualization1883
envisioning1938
projecting1960
the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid
pencilc1385
paintinga1400
portraiture?c1430
picturing1562
hypotyposis1570
presentment1633
portrayment?1650
scene painting1777
word painting1807
portrayal1836
pictorialism1869
1562 W. Fulwood tr. G. Gratarolus Castel of Mem. vi. sig. Fvj v The seconde is a picturynge and faynyng of fygures in the same Memorie.
a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) II. 158 Utter'd with those agitated picturings of the heart.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. xlix. 262 We here close our picturings of the Rocky mountains and their wild inhabitants.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 138 It was akin to the boy's and girl's picturing of the future beloved.
1963 W. Sellars Sci., Perception & Reality vi. 211 But what if, instead of construing ‘picturing’ as a relationship between facts, we construe it as a relationship between linguistic and nonlinguistic objects?
1999 J. Wood Broken Estate 177 The truth exists outside our metaphorical picturing of it,..our souls nudge a reality that lies beyond what we can see.
2. The action of making a picture by painting, drawing, etc.; depiction. Also concrete: a pictorial representation, a picture. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > representation > [noun]
picture?a1439
representingc1443
portraiturea1450
refigurationc1475
effigiation?1533
figuring1534
representation1579
picturing1585
representmentc1590
presentationa1616
portrayment?1650
iconism1656
importraiture1834
portrayal1836
rendition1959
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > pictorial representation
portraiturea1393
portrayc1415
picture?a1439
similitudea1450
depicture?a1513
zography1570
picturing1585
description1590
delineament1593
delineation1594
delineature1611
depiction1688
zoography1814
portrayal1847
depicturing1850
depicturementa1866
pictorialism1869
depicting1885
pictorialization1901
picturization1913
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iii. 55 They..labour by incantation, coniuration, magicke, sorcerie, and witchcraft to consume kill and destroie the Lords annointed by picturing, &c.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iii. §90. 184 Things.., which Christians in S. Austins time held abominable, (as the picturing of God).
1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 185 They can be friends with..picturings by pencill, or embroyderies.
1720 J. Quincy in tr. S. Santorio Medicina Statica (ed. 2) Introd. 24 Physical Knowledge is assisted by Picturing and Drawing, to view the Figures and Dimensions of those Instruments, or Agents, that are under Consideration.
1836 F. Mahony Songs of France in Reliques Father Prout (1859) iii. 270 The painter David..whose glorious picturings of ‘The Passage of the Alps by Bonaparte’ [etc.] shed such radiance on his native land.
1987 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 157/3 In an art world in which painting was picturing, something was lost even if the paintings are often wonderful.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

picturingadj.

Brit. /ˈpɪktʃ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪk(t)ʃərɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: picture v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < picture v. + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier picturing n.
That makes pictures (in various senses).
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [adjective] > describing vividly
word-painting1795
picturing1799
1799 S. W. Morton Virtues of Soc. 8 Ackland..to Harriet seems, all, that her dazzled view In the bright hour of picturing fancy drew.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 4 The grave melodious stanza and the picturing invention of Spenser.
1888 H. James in Cent. Mag. Apr. 871/2 The picturing, personifying, dramatizing faculty of infancy.
1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 at Wittgenstein, L. J. J. Wittgenstein's idea that all meaningful propositions are truth-functions of some elementary propositions which stand in a picturing relation to reality.
1988 A. C. Grayling Wittgenstein ii. 36 Language connects with the world by means of a ‘picturing’ relation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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