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picture
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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)
- 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
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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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outlook
English
Etymology
From out- +? look.
Pronunciation
- Noun:
- IPA(key): /?a?t?l?k/
- Verb:
- IPA(key): /?a?t?l?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
outlook (plural outlooks)
- A place from which something can be viewed.
- Synonyms: vantage point, overlook
- 1667, Edward Waterhouse, A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London, London: Richard Thrale et al., p. 97,[1]
- This fetched tears from the innocent eyes, those Casements and out-looks of the tender heart of our Lord Jesus, who beholding the City Ierusalem wept over it,
- The view from such a place.
- An attitude or point of view.
- Synonyms: attitude, opinion, perspective, point of view, vantage point, viewpoint
- Expectation for the future.
- Synonyms: expectation, prognosis, prospect
Translations
Verb
outlook (third-person singular simple present outlooks, present participle outlooking, simple past and past participle outlooked)
- (intransitive, archaic, literary) To face or look in an outward direction.
- Synonym: look out
- 1610, Gervase Markham, Markhams Maister-peece, or, What Doth a Horse-man Lack? London, Chapter 103 “Certaine speciall Notes to be obserued in buying of a horse,” pp. 204-205,[2]
- [...] marke his colour and his shape, that is to say, a comely well proportioned head, with an outlooking eye, good well raised shoulders, and a thicke large breast [...]
- 1622, Samuel Purchas, The Kings Towre and Triumphant Arch of London, London, 1623, pp. 32-33,[3]
- A Towre [...] is, or ought to be [...] mounted with bulwarks, towred with turrets, battailed for out-looking artillerie, enclosed with ditches [...]
- 1895, Henry van Dyke, “Alpenrosen and Goat’s Milk” in Little Rivers, New York: Scribner, p. 150,[4]
- [...] would we look at the rooms? Outlooking on the piazza, with a balcony from which we could observe the Festa of to-morrow.
- (transitive, archaic) To look at (someone) so long or intently that they look away; to win or prevail over (someone or something).
- Synonyms: outstare, face down, browbeat, overcome
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 2,[5]
- [...] I drew this gallant head of war,
- And cull’d these fiery spirits from the world,
- To outlook conquest and to win renown
- Even in the jaws of danger and of death.
- c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 11, p. 145,[6]
- There made they stand; there euerie eye, fixt on each other, stroue
- Who should outlooke his mate amaz’d:
- 1645, Henry Hammond, XXXI Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, London: Richard Royston, 1684, Sermon 8, p. 519,[7]
- [...] the news of the judgment to come, in the Preachers mouth, will be under an heavy suspicion of fraud and cheat, and in fine, pass but for fictions [...] too weak to outlook a brave glittering temptation:
- 1838, Thomas Miller, Royston Gower, London: W. Nicholson, Chapter 37, p. 329,[8]
- Once or twice he attempted to outlook the Saxon prisoner, but Hereward shrank not beneath his glance [...]
- 1911, Henry Gilbert, King Arthur’s Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls, Edinburgh & London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Chapter 11, p. 299,[9]
- The pain which the king suffered would have softened any ordinary heart; but the murderer was a hard and callous wretch, and his brazen eyes outlooked the king.
- (transitive, obsolete) To be more attractive than (someone or something).
- 1731, Mary Delany, letter dated 4 October, 1731, in George Paston (ed.), Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, London: Grant Richards, 1900, p. 64,[10]
- Nobody’s equipage outlooked ours except my Lord Lieutenant’s, but in every respect I must say Mrs. Clayton outshines her neighbours [...]
- 1793, Hester Piozzi, letter dated 22 May, 1793, in Oswald G. Knapp (ed.), The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821, London: The Bodley Head, 1914, p. 89,[11]
- [...] Sally quite outlooked her sister by the bye, and was very finely drest.
- 1862, B. F. Taylor, diary entry dated 5 November, 1862, in E. R. Hutchins (ed.), The War of the Sixties, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912, p. 36,[12]
- Burnside, handsome, stately, outlooked his chief on horseback as on foot.
- 1731, Mary Delany, letter dated 4 October, 1731, in George Paston (ed.), Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, London: Grant Richards, 1900, p. 64,[10]
- (transitive, obsolete) To inspect throughly; to select.
- 1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76,[13]
- Away to the Brook,
- All your Tackle out look,
- Here’s a day that is worth a year’s wishing;
- See that all things be right,
- For ’tis a very spight
- To want tools when a man goes a fishing.
- 1689, Charles Cotton, “The Angler’s Ballad” in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bassett et al., p. 76,[13]
- (transitive, obsolete) To look beyond (something).
- 1680, John Yalden, Compendium Politicum, or, The Distempers of Government, London: Robert Clavel, p. 54,[14]
- [...] to fit minds to so even a temper, that both should round the same circle, and never out-look the Horizon of their reciprocal Interest, is a work altogether impossible.
- 1680, John Yalden, Compendium Politicum, or, The Distempers of Government, London: Robert Clavel, p. 54,[14]
Derived terms
- outlooker
Anagrams
- Lookout, look out, look-out, lookout
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