picture

Definitions


[ˈpɪktʃə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a painting or drawing
(e.g: draw a picture of a tree)

- an impression of something formed from a description
(e.g: a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged)

- a person or thing resembling another closely
(e.g: ‘How excessively like her brother Miss Morland is!’ ‘The very picture of him, indeed!’)


Phrases:
- as pretty as a picture
- be in pictures
- get the picture
- in the picture
- look a picture
- out of the picture
- the big picture
- the picture of —

Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- ‘painted’ (from the verb pingere)


[ˈpɪktʃə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- represent in a photograph or picture
(e.g: he is pictured with party guests)


Phrases:
- as pretty as a picture
- be in pictures
- get the picture
- in the picture
- look a picture
- out of the picture
- the big picture
- the picture of —

Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- ‘painted’ (from the verb pingere)




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