different between portrait vs picturing

English

Alternative forms

• pourtraict (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin pr?trah?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po??t?e?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po?t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po?t?e?t/

Noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

1. (countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
   • a. 1792, Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts

     In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

2. (countable, figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

3. (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

Antonyms

• (print mode or selection): landscape
• (print mode or selection): profile

Related terms

• portray

Translations

Verb

portrait (third-person singular simple present portraits, present participle portraiting, simple past and past participle portraited)

1. (obsolete) To portray; to draw.

Adjective

portrait (not comparable)

1. Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

   a portrait bust; a portrait statue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t??/

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. portrait
2. (printing) portrait (format)
3. description (of a person or things)

Antonyms

• (2) paysage

Derived terms

• portrait craché
• refaire le portrait

Descendants

• ? Dutch: portret
  • Afrikaans: portret
  • ? Indonesian: potret
• ? German: Porträt

Further reading

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

Norman

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. (Jersey) portrait

English

Verb

picturing

1. present participle of picture

Noun

picturing (plural picturings)

1. depiction
   • c. 1832, William Motherwell, The Madman's Love

     Time fleeted on; but time ne'er dimmed / The picturings of the heart.