picture

  1. Noun.  A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
  2. Noun.  An image; a representation as in the imagination.
  3. Noun.  A painting.
  4. Noun.  A photograph.
  5. Noun.  (informal) A motion picture.
  6. Noun.  (dated, informal) (qualifier, "the pictures") Cinema (qualifier, as a form of entertainment) .
  7. Noun.  A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (''of'' a category).
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
  9. Verb.  (transitive) To imagine or envision.
  10. Verb.  (transitive) To depict.

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