Definition of picture

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Picture (n.) 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 in colors. By extension, a figure; a model..

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Distance :: Distance (n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape..
Trilogy :: Trilogy (n.) A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's Henry VI. is an example..
Hyalotype :: Hyalotype (n.) A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency.
Vandyke :: Vandyke (n.) A picture by Vandyke. Also, a Vandyke collar, or a Vandyke edge..
Sensuous :: Sensuous (a.) Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense..
Print :: Print (v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book..
Sign :: Sign (n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture..
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..
"""opalotype " :: Opalotype (n.) A picture taken on milky glass..
Take :: Take (v. i.) To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well..
Illustration :: Illustration (n.) A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
Portraiture :: Portraiture (n.) Pictures, collectively; painting..
Photography :: Photography (n.) The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light.
Indistinctness :: Indistinctness (n.) The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision..
Autotype :: Autotype (n.) A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.
Chrysotype :: Chrysotype (n.) A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
Limning :: Limning (n.) The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced..
Heliotype :: Heliotype (n.) A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
Pathos :: Pathos (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry..
Delineate :: Delineate (v. t.) To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation..
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