pic

pic

P0283500 (pĭk)n. pl. pics or pix (pĭks) Slang 1. A photograph.2. A movie.

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[Short for picture.]

pic

(pɪk) n, pl pics or pix (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) informal a photograph, picture, or illustration[C20: shortened from picture]

pic

(pɪk)

n., pl. pix (piks), pics. Slang. 1. motion picture. 2. photograph. [1880–85; by shortening of picture]

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Noun	1.	pic - 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"motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, film, picture show, flick, pictureproduct, production - an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production"sequence, episode - film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a moviecredit - an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work; "the credits were given at the end of the film"subtitle, caption - translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screencredits - a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)telefilm - a movie that is made to be shown on televisionscene, shot - a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a filmfeature film, feature - the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'"final cut - the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producerhome movie - a film made at home by an amateur photographercollage film - a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footagecoming attraction - a movie that is advertised to draw customersshoot-'em-up - a movie featuring shooting and violenceshort subject - a brief film; often shown prior to showing the featuredocudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment - a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or eventcinema verite - a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a directorfilm noir - a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters; "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"skin flick - a pornographic movierough cut - the first print of a movie after preliminary editingsilent movie, silent picture, silents - a movie without a soundtrackslow motion - a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster ratetalkie, talking picture - a movie with synchronized speech and singing3D, 3-D, three-D - a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearanceshow - a social event involving a public performance or entertainment; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway"musical, musical comedy, musical theater - a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancingdub - provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign languagesynchronise, synchronize - make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action; "synchronize this film"film, shoot, take - make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"videotape, tape - record on videotapereshoot - shoot again; "We had to reshoot that scene 24 times"
	2.	pic - a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive materialphoto, photograph, exposure, picturebeefcake - a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attireblack and white, monochrome - a black-and-white photograph or slideblueprint - photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.cheesecake - a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attirecloseup - a photograph taken at close rangedaguerreotype - a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vaporblowup, enlargement, magnification - a photographic print that has been enlargedframe - a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video filmglossy - a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paperheadshot - a photograph of a person's headhologram, holograph - the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holographylongshot - a photograph taken from a distancemicrodot - photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security)arial mosaic, photomosaic, mosaic - arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picturemug shot, mugshot - a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records)photocopy - a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic workphotographic print, print - a printed picture produced from a photographic negativephotomicrograph - a photograph taken with the help of a microscoperadiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram, skiagraph, radiogram - a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)representation - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or somethingsnapshot, snap, shot - an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends"spectrogram, spectrograph - a photographic record of a spectrumstereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture, stereo - two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed togetherstill - a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes); "he wanted some stills for a magazine ad"telephoto, telephotograph - a photograph made with a telephoto lenstelephotograph - a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distancetime exposure - a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure timevignette - a photograph whose edges shade off graduallywedding picture - photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their weddingscene, shot - a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

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