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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

From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?d??(?)n/
• Hyphenation: ren?di?tion

Noun

rendition (countable and uncountable, plural renditions)

1. (now rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.). [from 17th c.]
2. (now rare) The handing over of a person or thing. [from 17th c.]
3. Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work. [from 17th c.]
4. (law, chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict. [from 18th c.]
5. (law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011, Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 30 Mar 2011:

     Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials.

6. An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011, Paul Lester, The Guardian, 12 Apr 2011:

     The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts.
7. A given visual reproduction of something. [from 20th c.]

Hyponyms

• extraordinary rendition

Related terms

• render

Translations

See also

• extradition

Verb

rendition (third-person singular simple present renditions, present participle renditioning, simple past and past participle renditioned)

1. (transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
   • 2007, Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America,^[1] Greenwood Publishing Group, ?ISBN, page 60,

     Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.

See also

• rendition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nitrenoid