Word Finder - picture

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A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

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An image; a representation as in the imagination.

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A painting.

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There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.

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A photograph.

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I took a picture of the church.

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A motion picture.

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Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.

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(in the plural) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).

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Let's go to the pictures.

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A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).

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She's the very picture of health.

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An attractive sight.

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The garden is a real picture at this time of year.

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The art of painting; representation by painting.

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A figure; a model.

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Situation.

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The employment picture for the older middle class is not so good.

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To represent in or with a picture.

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To imagine or envision.

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To depict or describe vividly.

It was a picture taken at the party and the focus was on Carmen and Alex.

I saw his picture on your refrigerator.

He turned the picture this way and that, and looked at it from every side.

She didn't want the family picture, as that was the one they used in the newspaper.

Dean then brought Lydia Larkin into the picture by telling Jake Weller how she had radioed Fitzgerald with the two Denver investigators in her car, making the call from the spot where he claimed she'd be out of reception.

She found Antoine and drew his picture out.

The good minister looked at the picture for a long time.

Pumpkin looked at the picture of Randy Byrne, one leg up on a boulder, an I-own-the-world smile on his young face and Jen smiling at him with a look of love.

With mournful pleasure she now lingered over these images, repelling with horror only the last one, the picture of his death, which she felt she could not contemplate even in imagination at this still and mystic hour of night.

Whether her being in the picture will blow everything we're doing; I just don't know.

Here, some light vial the living room picture window provided a faint outline of fixtures and furniture.

Clearly, from a "big picture" standpoint, you should stick with the Oreos.

It was the picture of a sheep, and it was drawn so well that the stranger was filled with astonishment.

One day Cimabue was painting the picture of a man's face.

At one time he painted the picture of some fruit which was so real that the birds flew down and pecked at it.

She was scared to death I'd blackmail her with the picture I took of her sweater in Dickinson Faust's Jeep.

One picture succeeded another in his imagination.

A newspaper with Allen's picture on it lay opened on the coffee table.

Dean could picture the scene.

Dulce handed Carmen a picture, her face a study of emotion, but her lips revealing nothing.

She tossed the picture in his lap again and made a face.

He picked up the picture and sighed deeply, meeting her gaze.

Lisa returned her attention to the picture, her pulse quickening.

He could picture the vampire-shrouded traveler pushing his grocery cart, happy to have the extra covering on this mountain morning.

The stranger bent over him and looked at the picture he had made on the rock.

One can almost picture him, sandwich in hand, slack-jawed in surprise.

They all reflect and absorb his rays alike, and the former make but a small part of the glorious picture which he beholds in his daily course.

One glance at the picture and his neck turned red.

Still, all the information Katie provided created a clearer picture of why Alex acted the way he did at home.

He was putting up a framed twenty dollar bill on the wall next to a picture of him with the president.

Dean could picture the messing around.

Dean could picture the meal.

Carmen took the picture from her hand and studied it.

She dropped the picture in his lap and watched his reaction.

A mental picture of Cade shopping for such items brought a smile to her lips.

Can't you just picture them swimming around on that pond, ducking their heads gracefully to feed.

This camera was positioned further away and the picture blurry, and more intermittent.

If I do, all I can picture is her trapped in some dark hole!

Certainly placing the family picture face down on the coffee table had done nothing to ease her pain.

The only picture was of a teenage boy, apparently the deceased brother.

I didn't want the silly picture anyway, and the price was right.

A picture of the tin came up on the screen.

The answers fell into place, one after another like a child's wooden puzzle, and even absent the last lingering block, the finished the picture was finally clear.

Katie stared at the picture for a long moment, then emptied her pockets on the table.

He could picture her, holding the hem of her gown, climbing onto the chair, perhaps even smiling, before kicking it away, and waiting the few agonizing moments until death took her hand and led her to its darkness.

I'd try to smooth over the missing picture with Miss Worthington by telling her about this here notebook, but I can't be sure she'd keep her mouth shut and not blab about it to the Quincy ladies.

He shouldn't have to draw a picture for her.

On the walls of the chief council chambers are a magnificent series of oil-paintings by Tintoretto and other less able Venetians - among them Tintoretto's masterpiece, "Bacchus and Ariadne," and his enormous picture of Paradise, the largest oil-painting in the world.

In his Letters Pliny presents us with a picture of the varied interests of a cultivated Roman gentleman.

Among the public institutions of the city should be mentioned the public library, picture gallery, botanical garden, and the institute for the making of stained glass.