different between picture vs concept

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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)

1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
2. 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 […].

3. A painting.
4. A photograph.
5. (informal, dated) A motion picture.
6. (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).

7. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
8. An attractive sight.
9. 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

10. 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

11. Situation.

Synonyms

• (representation as in the imagination): image

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Translations

Verb

picture (third-person singular simple present pictures, present participle picturing, simple past and past participle pictured)

1. (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
2. (transitive) To imagine or envision.
3. (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

1. 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)

1. (Guernsey) picture

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipi? (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit. See conceive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?pt/

Noun

concept (plural concepts)

1. An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
2. Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
   • Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense. Frege explicitly recognizes them as functions. Like Peirce's rhema, a concept is unsaturated. They are in some sense incomplete. Although Frege never gets beyond the metaphorical in his description of the incompleteness of concepts and other functions, one thing is clear: the distinction between objects and functions is the main division in his metaphysics. There is something special about functions that makes them very different from objects.
3. (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

Synonyms

• conception
• notion
• abstraction

Hyponyms

• conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality
• notion
• scheme
• rule, regulation
• property, attribute, dimension
• abstraction, abstract
• quantity
• part, section, division
• whole
• law, natural law, law of nature
• hypothesis
• possibility
• theory
• fact
• rule

Derived terms

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Translations

See also

Verb

concept (third-person singular simple present concepts, present participle concepting, simple past and past participle concepted)

1. to conceive; to dream up

Further reading

• concept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• concept in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• concept on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Concept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?pt/
• Hyphenation: con?cept

Noun

concept n (plural concepten, diminutive conceptje n)

1. concept
2. draft, sketch

Derived terms

• conceptversie

Descendants

• Afrikaans: konsep
• ? Indonesian: konsep

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conceptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt
• Homophone: concepts

Noun

concept m (plural concepts)

1. concept

Synonyms

• connaissance
• idée
• notion

Related terms

• concepteur
• conception
• conceptualiser
• conceptualisation
• conceptuel
• conceptuellement
• concevoir

Further reading

• “concept” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French concept, Latin conceptus.

Noun

concept n (plural concepte)

1. concept

Declension

Related terms

• concepe
• concepere
• conceptibil
• conceptibilitate
• conceptism
• conceptual
• conceptualism
• conceptualist
• conceptualiza
• conceptualizat
• conceptualizare
• concep?ie
• concep?ional