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picture
- For Wiktionary's policy on pictures, see Wiktionary:Pictures
English
Etymology
From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pict?ra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from ping? (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?kt??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?k(t)??/
- (US, regional) IPA(key): /?p?t??/
- Rhymes: -?kt??(?)
- Homophone: pitcher (US, regional)
Noun
picture (plural pictures)
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream
- My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 2007, The Workers' Republic
- Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him […] as being tall, commanding, and as the advance notices of him, a sliver-tongued orator. I found him, however, to be the opposite of my mental picture; short, squat, unpretentious […].
- 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream
- A painting.
- A photograph.
- (informal, dated) A motion picture.
- (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
- A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
- An attractive sight.
- The art of painting; representation by painting.
- 1862, Henry Barnard, "Sir Henry Wotton" in American Journal of Education
- any well-expressed image […] either in picture or sculpture
- 1862, Henry Barnard, "Sir Henry Wotton" in American Journal of Education
- A figure; a model.
- September 8, 1620, James Howell, "To my Brother Dr. Howell" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ
- the young king's picture […] in virgin wax
- September 8, 1620, James Howell, "To my Brother Dr. Howell" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ
- Situation.
Synonyms
- (representation as in the imagination): image
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Verb
picture (third-person singular simple present pictures, present participle picturing, simple past and past participle pictured)
- (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
- (transitive) To imagine or envision.
- (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.
Translations
Related terms
- depict
- depiction
- pictorial
See also
- Wiktionary:Picture dictionary
Further reading
- picture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- picture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- cuprite
Latin
Participle
pict?re
- vocative masculine singular of pict?rus
Norman
Etymology
From Old French picture, borrowed from Latin pict?ra (“the art of painting, a painting”) (compare the inherited Old French form peinture), from ping?, pingere (“paint; decorate, embellish”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“spot, color”).
Noun
picture f (plural pictures)
- (Guernsey) picture
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carve
English
Etymology
From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerban?, from Proto-Indo-European *gerb?- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian g?rbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (žr?bii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek ??????? (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??v/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??v/
- Homophone: calve (Received Pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -??(?)v
Verb
carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved or (obsolete) corve, past participle carved or (archaic) carven or (obsolete) corven)
- (archaic) To cut.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad
- My good blade carves the casques of men.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
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Noun
carve (plural carves)
- (obsolete) A carucate.
- 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
- ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...
- 1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31
- Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
- 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
- The act of carving
Anagrams
- Caver, caver, crave, varec
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