A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc
A representation of visible reality produced by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc
If you picture something in your mind, you think of it and have such a clear memory or idea of it that you seem to be able to see it. He pictured her with long black braided hair He pictured Claire sitting out in the car, waiting for him I tried to picture the place, but could not. = imagine
If you get the picture, you understand the situation, especially one which someone is describing to you. Luke never tells you the whole story, but you always get the picture. = get the idea
A picture of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like. I'll try and give you a better picture of what the boys do
If you put someone in the picture, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about. Has Inspector Fayard put you in the picture?. picture element motion picture Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America
Television pictures are the scenes which you see on a television screen. heartrending television pictures of human suffering
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"