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Definition:

graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre";

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them";

a typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair";

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";

the visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone";

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";

illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures";

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";

a situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century";

imagine; conceive of; see in one''s mind; "I can''t see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy";

show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting";

Hyponyms: abstraction, cityscape, daub, distemper, finger-painting, icon, ikon, landscape, miniature, illumination, monochrome, mural, wall painting, nude, nude painting, oil painting, pentimento, portrait, sand painting, seascape, semi-abstraction, still life, tanka, trompe l'oeil, watercolor, watercolour, bitmap, electronic image, chiaroscuro, collage, montage, foil, transparency, iconography, inset, likeness, semblance, panorama, cyclorama, diorama, photograph, photo, exposure, pic, reflection, reflexion, scan, CAT scan, sonogram, feature, feature film, final cut, home movie, collage film, coming attraction, shoot-'em-up, short subject, documentary, docudrama, documentary film, infotainment, cinema verite, peepshow, rough cut, silent movie, silent picture, silents, slow motion, talking picture, talkie, three-D, 3-D, 3D, epithet, portrayal, portraiture, illustrate, map

Grouped Verbs: understand, realize, realise, see, visualize, visualise

Part Meronyms: television, telecasting, TV, video

Derivational Morphology: depict, render, show, portray, limn, paint, visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, image, film, shoot, take, qualify, characterize, characterise, describe, draw, specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate, mental image, effigy, simulacrum, icon, ikon, imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery, mental picture, impression, picturing, envisioning, figuration, visionary, illusionist, seer, illusion, fantasy, phantasy, visual image, visualization, visualisation, visualizer, visualiser, depiction, delineation, portrayal, pictorial matter, depicting, portraying, painting, pictorial representation

Anagrams: cuprite

Language Translations:
Catalan: foto and pellícula		Chinese: 照片 and 图画
Dutch: afbeelding and film and foto		Finnish: elokuva and kuva and valokuva
French: cinéma and image and photo		German: Bild and Foto and Kino
Hungarian: fénykép and kép		Icelandic: ljósmynd and mynd
Italian: fotografia and quadro		Japanese: 絵 and 写真 and 映画館
Korean: 그림 and 사진		Polish: kino and obraz and zdjęcie
Portuguese: cinema and figura and fotografia		Russian: картина and кино and фотография
Serbian: slika		Slovene: film and fotografija and slika
Spanish: cine and foto and imagen		Swedish: fotografi and tavla
Telugu: చిత్రం and ఫోటో		Welsh: llun

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