picture
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Is picture a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of picture?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated or India) A motion picture.Examples: "Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture."; ""You make moving pictures. In jungles and places." "That's me. And I've picked you for the lead in my next picture.""Indiadated
2. (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).Examples: "Let's go to the pictures."in-pluralinformal
3. (MLE) A sample of an illegal drug.Examples: "If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture."Multicultural-London-English
4. (programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.Examples: "The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution."; "To recapitulate, the pictures we have considered so far are: X – any character A — alphabetic characters and the space character […]"
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.Examples: "while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut."; "What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient had pictured herself as a much younger woman"; "Anyone "skilled in the art" could see from their language that Lemp and Wightman had not invented or patented the invention their draftsman had pictured."transitive
2. (transitive) To imagine or envision.Examples: "Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies"; "If you can picture this—a day in December / Picture this—freezing cold weather / You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids"transitive
3. (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.Examples: "I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose."; "Drawing is picturing people, places, and things with line."; "Many rock paintings picture various species of fish."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary