Definition of (picture) in English English dictionary
- Picture Sorts
- a research tool used to deconstruct the audience’s visual experience of a television commercial
Picture Sorts are the tools most useful to the ad team because it shows them, in pictures instead of words, what is and is not working in the ad.
- Picture Sorts
- a research tool used to diagnose different strengths and weaknesses of the commercial via flow of attention, flow of emotion, and flow of meaning
- a picture is worth a thousand words
- Alternative form of a picture paints a thousand words
- a picture paints a thousand words
- A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description
See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!.
- big picture
- The totality of a situation
- big picture
- The main film in a double feature
- bigger picture
- An understanding of a situation that includes more than what is immediately apparent
- desktop picture
- picture displayed on a computer's desktop as a background behind the user interface
- desktop-picture
- Attributive form of desktop picture
desktop-picture choice.
- get the picture
- To understand or comprehend; to interpret correctly
I hung a no solicitors sign by my door. One of these days, I hope they'll get the picture and quit ringing the bell.
- motion picture
- A sequence of images depicting people or objects in motion, preserved on a recording medium and capable of being projected for viewing
Some technical knowledge of cameras and lighting is needed to create a motion picture.
- motion picture
- The narrative or other informational content conveyed by means of such a sequence of images
Gone with the Wind is my favorite motion picture.
- moving picture
- A film, movie
- picture
- ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment)
Let's go to the pictures.
- picture
- To imagine or envision
Picture yourself on a beach.
- picture
- A motion picture
Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
- picture
- A painting
There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
- picture
- To depict
- picture
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc
- picture
- A photograph
I took a picture of that church.
Here's a photograph of Tom.
- Here's a picture of Tom.
- picture
- An image; a representation as in the imagination
- picture
- To represent in or with a picture
- picture
- A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category)
She's the very picture of health.
- picture book
- A book for young children in which the narrative is accompanied by illustrations
- picture books
- plural form of picture book
- picture box
- A user interface control for displaying an image
Displaying images on a form is very simple with a picture box. Just set the image property to a file on your hard drive.
- picture card
- A trade card
- picture card
- A playing card which has a picture on it (usually Jack, Queen or King, but sometimes including Ace or Joker)
- picture card
- A flash memory card for a digital camera
- picture dictionary
- A dictionary that includes pictures to help identify things
- picture framing
- a square or rectangular pattern of ridges in a roof membrane or covering over insulation or deck joints
- picture message
- An image that is transmitted electronically, especially between mobile phones
- picture message
- An image used to convey an idea or concept
- picture messaging
- The transmission of picture messages between mobile phones
- picture molding
- A horizontal molding attached to a wall intended to facilitate the hanging of decorative objects
- picture plane
- In art, the imaginary plane correspondent with the physical surface of a drawing, painting or print
- picture rail
- A moulding applied to or recessed into the surface of a wall, and used to suspend hooks and cables attached to paintings, framed art or mirrors. The moulding is usually continuous around the room
- picture rails
- plural form of picture rail
- picture-perfect
- Perfect in appearance as with the subjects in paintings or photographs, without the common imperfections of real life
- picture-skew
- Alternative spelling of picturesque
If you mean ‘picturesque’ I’d say that you are quite right.
- road picture
- Alternative name of road movie
- take a picture
- To photographically capture an image
- take a picture, it will last longer
- an ironic statement said after being stared at for a long time
Byron wasn't aware he was staring as long as he was. His manager saw him and gathered all the girls behind the counter together and had them stare at Byron. Finally she said, Byron, take a picture; it will last longer. Byron was startled out of his daydream and the girls all laughed at him.
- picture
- {n} a resemblance in colors
- picture
- {v} to paint
- Picture Exchange communication system
- Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is a form of augmentative and alternative communication. It is typically used as an aid in communication for children with autism and other special needs. The system has been used with a variety of ages including preschoolers, adolescents and adults who have a wide array of communicative, cognitive and physical difficulties. Recent literature reviews have supported PECS as an evidence-based practice
- mental picture
- A clear and telling mental image: "He described his mental picture of his assailant."
- the big picture
- The situation as a whole
- Motion Picture Association
- MPA, international organization of movie producers (branch of the American association)
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- {i} SMPTE, international professional association of engineers working in the motion picture industry founded in the United States in 1916 with a purpose to develop the motion imaging field and standardize the industry
- class picture
- photograph of an entire school class
- come into the picture
- {f} be involved in the issue or matter; appear on the scene; be present or arrive at a certain phase of a process
- distorted picture
- picture that is twisted out of shape; misrepresentation of reality or the true facts
- distorted picture of reality
- false view of the way things are, distorted view of reality
- famous picture
- {i} well-known picture; famous painting
- frame a picture
- encase a painting or drawing in a protective border
- got into the picture
- entered the picture, appeared on the scene
- landscape picture
- picture of a landscape
- living picture
- such a tableau as imitating a work of art
- living picture
- A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif
- mental picture
- 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
- motion picture
- A motion picture is a film made for cinema. It was there that I saw my first motion picture. = movie. a film made for the cinema = movie. or movie Series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen. Motion pictures are filmed with a movie camera, which makes rapid exposures of people or objects in motion, and shown with a movie projector, which reproduces sound synchronized with the images. The principal inventors of motion-picture machines were Thomas Alva Edison in the U.S. and the Lumière brothers in France. Film production was centred in France in the early 20th century, but by 1920 the U.S. had become dominant. As directors and stars moved to Hollywood, movie studios expanded, reaching their zenith in the 1930s and '40s, when they also typically owned extensive theatre chains. Moviemaking was marked by a new internationalism in the 1950s and '60s, which also saw the rise of the independent filmmaker. The sophistication of special effects increased greatly from the 1970s. The U.S. film industry, with its immense technical resources, has continued to dominate the world market to the present day. See also Columbia Pictures; MGM; Paramount Communications; RKO; United Artists; Warner Brothers
- motion picture
- 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"; "the film was shot on location"
- motion-picture camera
- a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession
- motion-picture cameraman
- person who films movies
- moving picture
- A moving picture is a film. A movie. a film made to be shown at the cinema
- not in the picture
- out of it, out of the deal
- picture
- By extension, a figure; a model
- picture
- 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
- picture
- Cinema (as a form of entertainment)"
- picture
- A representation of visible reality produced by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc
- picture
- 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
- picture
- 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
- picture
- To make a picture of
- picture
- The art of painting; representation by painting
- picture book
- a book consisting chiefly of pictures
- picture book
- a book in which the illustrations are as important as the text, both contributing to the telling of the story
- picture book
- A children's book, usually about 32 pages in length, in which illustrations are an integral part of the story
- picture card
- any one of the cards in a deck of playing cards that has a picture of a face (king, queen or jack)
- picture frame
- a framework in which a picture is mounted
- picture hat
- a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim
- picture messaging
- {i} photo messaging, system that allows digital pictures to be relayed from one mobile phone to another or to an e-mail address
- picture postcard
- postcard that has a picture of a view on the front
- picture postcard
- You can use picture postcard to describe a place that is very attractive. picture-postcard Normandy villages. = picturesque. a postcard with a photograph or picture on it
- picture postcard
- a postcard with a picture on one side
- picture rail
- rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures
- picture rail
- A picture rail is a continuous narrow piece of wood which is fixed round a room just below the ceiling. Pictures can be hung from it using string and hooks. a long narrow piece of wood fixed high on a wall, used for hanging pictures from
- picture resolution
- measure of the quality of a picture according to its clarity and sharpness
- picture tube
- part of a television that makes it possible to view a picture on the screen
- picture window
- Large fixed windows
- picture window
- The picture window is stationary and framed so that it is usually, but not always, longer horizontally than vertically to provide a panoramic view
- picture window
- Fixed sash
- picture window
- A large, fixed window framed so that it is usually, but not always, longer horizontally than vertically to provide a panoramic view
- picture window
- A window that has no moveable sash
- picture window
- An ad layout in which the picture is placed at the top of the page, and the copy is placed below
- picture writing
- a writing system using pictographs
- picture-perfect
- exactly right in appearance or quality
- sound motion picture
- movie that has voices and sounds
- stereoscopic picture
- two photographs that appear to be three-dimensional when viewed together, stereoscopic photograph
- take a picture
- photograph
- talking picture
- a movie with synchronized speech and singing
- television-picture tube
- cathode ray-tube in a television where the image is displayed
- word picture
- 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