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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)

  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

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report

English

Etymology

From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin report?re (to carry back, return, remit, refer), from re- + port?re.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /???p??t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p??t/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /???po?t/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po(?)?t/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po?t/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
  2. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15thc.]
  3. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15th-18thc.]
  4. (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15thc.]
  5. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19thc.]
  6. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19thc.]
  7. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19thc.]
    • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
  8. (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
    Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.
  9. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
  10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
  11. (obsolete) To refer.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
      Baldwin, his son, [] succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will spare the repeating his description.
  12. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

Derived terms

  • aforereported
  • reporter
  • underreport
  • unreported

Translations

Noun

report (plural reports)

  1. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
  2. Reputation.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
      I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
  3. (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
      While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
      [] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
  4. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
    Synonym: subordinate

Derived terms

  • (piece of information): on report, report card
  • (employee): direct report, indirect report

Descendants

  • ? Japanese: ???? (rep?to), ???? (rip?to)

Translations

Further reading

  • Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper

French

Etymology

deverbal of reporter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.p??/

Noun

report m (plural reports)

  1. postponement
  2. deferment

Synonyms

  • ajournement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • porter

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