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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 French perception, from Latin percepti? (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipi? (“I perceive, observe”); see perceive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??s?p?(?)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??s?p?(?)n/

Noun

perception (countable and uncountable, plural perceptions)

1. The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
2. Conscious understanding of something.

   perception of time

3. Vision (ability)
4. Acuity
5. (cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.

Synonyms

• ken

Related terms

• perceive
• percept
• perceptual

Derived terms

• petite perception

Translations

Further reading

• perception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• perception in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• preception

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin percepti?, percepti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?p.sj??/

Noun

perception f (plural perceptions)

1. tax collection
2. perception (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

• petite perception (philosophy)

Related terms

• percevoir

References

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

Further reading

• perception on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr