picture in WordNet English dictionary

1. a graphic or vivid verbal description
   "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
   word picture  word-painting  delineation  depiction  picture  characterization  characterisation 
   
2. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
   photograph  photo  exposure  picture  pic 
   
3. 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"
   movie  film  picture  moving picture  moving-picture show  motion picture  motion-picture show  picture show  pic  flick 
   
4. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
   "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
   picture  image  icon  ikon 
   
5. a clear and telling mental image
   "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind"
   mental picture  picture  impression 
   
6. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
   "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre"
   painting  picture 
   
7. illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
   "the dictionary had many pictures"
   picture  pictorial matter 
   
8. a typical example of some state or quality
   "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
   picture 
   
9. the visible part of a television transmission
   "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
   video  picture 
   
10. a situation treated as an observable object
    "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
    picture  scene 
    

1. show in, or as in, a picture
   "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
   picture  depict  render  show 
   
2. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
   "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
   visualize  visualise  envision  project  fancy  see  figure  picture  image