picturenoun
uk/ˈpɪk.tʃər/us/ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/picture noun (IMAGE)
A1 [ C ] a drawing, painting, photograph, etc.:
Freddy drew/painted a picture of my dog.
We took a picture of (= photographed) the children on their new bicycles.
I hate having my picture taken (= being photographed).
B2 [ C ] an image seen on a television or cinema screen:
We can't get a clear picture.
B1 [ C ] a film:
Could this be the first animated movie to win a best picture award?
the pictures [ plural ] old-fashioned
the cinema:
Let's go to the pictures tonight.
B2 [ C ] something you produce in your mind, by using your imagination or memory:
I have a very vivid picture of the first time I met Erik.
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- She cut out his picture from the magazine.
- There was a picture of the Trevi fountain on the front of the book.
- Take a look at this picture and see if you recognize anyone.
- This TV gives a very sharp picture.
- All these pictures were painted by local artists.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Photography
- airbrush
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- high-resolution
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- negative
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
- superimpose
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Pictures
Public entertainment venues
Imagining and conceiving
picture noun (IDEA)
B2 [ S ] (an idea of) a situation:
After watching the news, I had a clearer picture of what was happening.
The picture emerging in reports from the battlefield is one of complete confusion.
[ S ] a situation described in a particular way:
figurative The experts are painting a gloomy/brighter/rosy picture of the state of the economy.
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- This report gives a global picture of the company's finances.
- He painted a rosy picture of family life.
- She paints a gloomy picture of the future.
- I suspect she gave a true picture of what had happened.
- There are, however, one or two items of good news to brighten the economic picture a bit.
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Situations and circumstances
- affair
- backdrop
- background
- case
- circumstance
- climate
- condition
- farce
- footing
- going
- matrix
- perfect storm
- position
- practicality
- scheme
- situation
- snapshot
- stake
- the scheme of things idiom
- thing
Idiom(s)
be a picture
be the picture of health, innocence, etc.
every picture tells a story
get the picture
keep sb in the picture
out of the picture
put sb in the picture
sb's face is a picture
pictureverb [ T ]
uk/ˈpɪk.tʃər/us/ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/C1 to imagine something:
Picture the scene - the crowds of people and animals, the noise, the dirt.
[ + -ing verb ] Try to picture yourself lying on a beach in the hot sun.
[ + question word ] Picture to yourself how terrible that day must have been.
formal He was pictured (= an artist had painted him) as a soldier in full uniform.
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- I pictured myself relaxing by the pool.
- Can you picture yourselves living in the country?
- He smiled to himself as he pictured the scene.
- If you could try to picture how difficult life was in those days, you'll understand more.
- I'd pictured him as much older.
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Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- dream
- feel
- fertile
- fertility
- foundation
- look on/upon sb/sth as sth
- mind
- presumption
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- run riot idiom
- suspicion
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