picture

1.a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

they showed us the pictures of their wedding

2.graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

a small painting by Picasso

3.a clear and telling mental image;

he described his mental picture of his assailant

4.a situation treated as an observable object;

the political picture is favorable

5.illustrations used to decorate or explain a text;

the dictionary had many pictures

6.a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

they went to a movie every Saturday night

7.the visible part of a television transmission;

they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone

8.a graphic or vivid verbal description;

too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures

9.a typical example of some state or quality;

the very picture of a modern general

1.imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

I can't see him on horseback!

2.show in, or as in, a picture;

This scene depicts country life