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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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

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 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French record, from recorder. See record (verb).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??d/
• (General American) enPR: r?k??rd, IPA^(key): /???k?d/
• Rhymes: -?k??(?)d, -?k?(?)d
• Hyphenation: rec?ord

Noun

record (plural records)

1. An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.

2. Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.

   Synonym: log

3. Ellipsis of phonograph record: a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.

   Synonyms: disc, phonograph record, vinyl

4. (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
5. The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• record book
• record-breaking

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English recorden (“to repeat, to report”), borrowed from Old French recorder (“to get by heart”), from Latin record?r?, present active infinitive of recordor (“remember, call to mind”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??d/
• (General American) enPR: r?-kôrd?, r?-kôrd?, IPA^(key): /???k??d/, /?i?k??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Hyphenation: re?cord

Verb

record (third-person singular simple present records, present participle recording, simple past and past participle recorded)

1. (transitive) To make a record of information.

   I wanted to record every detail of what happened, for the benefit of future generations.
2. (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.

   Within a week they had recorded both the song and the video for it.
3. (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.

   When the deed was recorded, we officially owned the house.

4. (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
5. (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
6. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To repeat; to practice.
7. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To sing or repeat a tune.
   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 741-742,^[4]

     Come Berecynthia, let vs in likewise,

     And heare the Nightingale record hir notes.

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem by Torquato Tasso, London: I. Iaggard and M. Lownes, Book 2, p. 39,^[5]

     They long’d to see the day, to heare the larke

     Record her hymnes and chant her carols blest,

   • c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act IV, Prologue,^[6]

     […] to the lute

     She sung, and made the night-bird mute,

     That still records with moan;

   • 1616, William Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals, London: John Haviland, 1625, Book 2, Song 4, p. 129,^[7]

     […] the Nymph did earnestly contest

     Whether the Birds or she recorded best […]

8. (obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-History of Britain from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: John Williams, Book 5, Section 3, page 204,^[8]

     […] he was […] carried to the Scaffold on the Tower-hill […] , himself praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read.

Derived terms

Antonyms

• (make a record of information): erase
• (make an audio or video recording of): erase

Translations

Anagrams

• Corder

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

record m (plural records)

1. memory, recollection of events
2. souvenir

See also

• rècord

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

record n (plural records, diminutive recordje n)

1. record

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: rekor

French

Etymology

From English record.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??/

Noun

record m (plural records)

1. record (most extreme known value of some achievement)

   Le record du saut en hauteur a été battu par Javier Sotomayor en 1993.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• corder

Italian

Etymology

From English record.

Noun

record m (invariable)

1. record (sporting achievement; computer data element)

Further reading

• record in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Noun

record m (plural records)

1. Alternative form of recorde

Adjective

record (invariable, comparable)

1. Alternative form of recorde

Romanian

Etymology

From French record.

Noun

record n (plural recorduri)

1. record (achievement)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

record m (plural records)

1. Misspelling of récord.
2. record

Welsh

Etymology

From English record.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?k?rd/

Noun

record f (plural recordiau, not mutable)

1. record

Derived terms

• record byd (“world record”)
• recordio (“to record”)
• recordiad (“recording”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “record”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies