Definition of Pictore
Pic"ture (?), n. -- Animated
picture, a moving picture.
Pic"ture (?), n. [L. pictura, fr.
pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See
Paint.] 1. The art of painting;
representation by painting. [Obs.]
Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture
or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.
2. 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.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary
objects. Bacon.
The young king's picture . . . in virgin
wax. Howell.
3. An image or resemblance; a representation,
either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings
vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of
his father; the man is the picture of grief.
My eyes make pictures when they are
shut. Coleridge.
&fist; Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming
self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-
book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture
seller or picture-seller, etc.
Picture gallery, a gallery, or large
apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures. --
Picture red, a rod of metal tube fixed to the
walls of a room, from which pictures are hung. -- Picture
writing. (a) The art of recording
events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing
the actions or circumstances in question. Tylor.
(b) The record or message so represented; as, the
picture writing of the American Indians.
Syn. -- Picture, Painting. Every kind of
representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether
made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink;
strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored
paints, usually applied moist with a brush.
Pic"ture, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Pictured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Picturing.] To draw or paint a resemblance of; to
delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to
bring before the mind. "I . . . do picture it in my
mind." Spenser.
I have not seen him so pictured.
Shak.
Pic"ture (?), n. -- Animated
picture, a moving picture.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome
in three.
"Behold great Daubert's picture here on view --
Taken from Life." If that description's true,
Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too.
Jali Hane
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- A representation of the reality that can be seen.
- A representation of visible reality produced by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- A painting.
There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
- (informal) A photograph.
I want to take a picture of that church.
- (the pictures) (UK, slightly dated, informal) Cinema (as a form of entertainment)
Let's go to the pictures.
- (transitive): To make a picture of.
- (transitive): To imagine or envision.
Picture yourself on a beach.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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