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  • 31picture — As a noun or verb meaning image, representation, and to represent, to form an image, picture is a standard word. It is greatly overused, however, in such loose expressions as Do you get the picture? and Picture that. Pretty as a picture and… …

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  • 32picture — I n 1. likeness, semblance, similitude, icon, representation, simulacrum, portrait, depictment, depiction; artwork, painting, drawing, line drawing, black and white, pen and ink, oil painting, pastel, wa tercolor, gouache, wash drawing, engraving …

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  • 33picture —   Ki i, ki i ho ākaaka.    ♦ His picture, kona ki i (of him); kāna ki i (by him).    ♦ To draw or paint a picture, kaha ki i.    ♦ To paint a picture, pena ki i.    ♦ To take pictures, pa i ki i.    ♦ Picture frame, lā au.    ♦ Picture projector …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 34picture — 1. noun /ˈpɪktʃə,ˈpɪk(t)ʃɚ/ a) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. There was a picture hanging above the fireplace. b) An… …

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  • 35picture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. image, likeness, counterpart; portrayal, representation, view, scene, tableau, setting; drawing, painting, photograph, sketch, etching, engraving, canvas. See appearance. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 36Picture — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Picture, image en anglais, abrégé en Pix, peut faire référence à : Picture, un groupe de metal, Pictures, un album de Katie Melua sorti en 2007,… …

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  • 37picture — [15] Picture and paint are very closely related. The Latin verb pingere ‘paint’ was the source of English paint, and its past participial stem pict produced a noun, pictūra ‘painting’, which was eventually to become English picture. The same… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 38picture — 1. noun 1) pictures in an art gallery Syn: painting, drawing, sketch, watercolour, print, canvas, portrait, illustration, depiction, likeness, representation, image 2) we were told not to take pictures …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 39picture — see one picture is worth ten thousand words every picture tells a story …

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  • 40picture — [15] Picture and paint are very closely related. The Latin verb pingere ‘paint’ was the source of English paint, and its past participial stem pict produced a noun, pictūra ‘painting’, which was eventually to become English picture. The same… …

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