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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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sculpture
English
Etymology
From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculpt?ra (“sculpture”), from sculp? (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sk?lpt???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sk?lptj(?)?/, /?sk?lpt???/
- Hyphenation: sculp?ture
Noun
sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)
- (countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
- There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
- Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
Translations
Verb
sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures, present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle sculptured)
- To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
- To represent something in sculpture.
- To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
Translations
Related terms
- sculpt
- sculptor
- sculptureless
- sculpturelike
Further reading
- sculpture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sculpture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sculpture at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skyl.ty?/ (p is not pronounced)
- Homophone: sculptures
Noun
sculpture f (plural sculptures)
- sculpture
Further reading
- “sculpture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- sculpteur
Latin
Participle
sculpt?re
- vocative masculine singular of sculpt?rus
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