Definition of picture

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Picture (n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Figure :: Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement..
Monographical :: Monographical (a.) Of or pertaining to a monograph, or to a monography; as, a monographic writing; a monographic picture..
Depicture :: Depicture (v. t.) To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.
Selenograph :: Selenograph (n.) A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it..
Zoopraxiscope :: Zoopraxiscope (n.) An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like..
Table :: Table (v. t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture..
Picture :: Picture (n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.
Sky :: Sky (v. t.) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it can not be well seen..
Pictured :: Pictured (a.) Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene..
Illuminate :: Illuminate (v. t.) To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages..
Transparency :: Transparency (n.) That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it..
Take :: Take (v. i.) To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well..
Daguerreotype :: Daguerreotype (n.) The process of taking such pictures.
Megalethoscope :: Megalethoscope (n.) An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.
Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..
Calotype :: Calotype (n.) A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitized with iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor, Mr. Fox. Talbot..
Image :: Image (n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor..
Screen :: Screen (n.) A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc..
Emblem :: Emblem (n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation..
Stereoscopic :: Stereoscope (n.) An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer..
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