picture : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an academy that gives annual awards for achievements in motion picture production and performance
  

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• a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.

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• a painting of moderate size such as is made while resting on an easel, as distinguished from a painting on a wall or ceiling.

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• verb get the meaning of something
  grok; apprehend; dig; comprehend; grasp; compass; savvy.
  
  • Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?

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• noun a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police; uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought
  Identikit.
  

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• noun a memory image that is similar to a visual perception
  

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• noun a clear and telling mental image
  picture; impression.
  
  • he described his mental picture of his assailant
  • he had no clear picture of himself or his world
  • the events left a permanent impression in his mind

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• noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
  flick; picture; pic; movie; motion picture; moving-picture show; motion-picture show; film; moving picture.
  
  • they went to a movie every Saturday night
  • the film was shot on location

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• noun a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession
  movie camera; cine-camera.
  

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• noun someone who goes to see movies
  moviegoer.
  

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• noun photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool; to be used in a movie camera
  cine-film; movie film.
  

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• noun the act of making a film
  filming; cinematography.
  

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• noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
  flick; picture; pic; movie; motion picture; moving-picture show; motion-picture show; film; moving picture.
  
  • they went to a movie every Saturday night
  • the film was shot on location

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• noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
  flick; picture; pic; movie; motion picture; moving-picture show; motion-picture show; film; moving picture.
  
  • they went to a movie every Saturday night
  • the film was shot on location

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• noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
  flick; picture; pic; movie; motion picture; moving-picture show; motion-picture show; film; moving picture.
  
  • they went to a movie every Saturday night
  • the film was shot on location

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• verb call to mind
  suggest; evoke.
  
  • this remark evoked sadness

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• noun a book consisting chiefly of pictures
  

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• noun one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face
  face card; court card.
  

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• noun (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot)
  pel; pixel.
  
  • the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution

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• noun a framework in which a picture is mounted
  

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• noun a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
  art gallery; gallery.
  

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• a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures.

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• noun a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim
  

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• noun a theater where films are shown
  movie theater; movie theatre; movie house; cinema.
  

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• noun the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work
  

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• noun a postcard with a picture on one side
  

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• noun rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures
  

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• a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung.

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• noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
  flick; picture; pic; movie; motion picture; moving-picture show; motion-picture show; film; moving picture.
  
  • they went to a movie every Saturday night
  • the film was shot on location

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• noun the act of taking and printing photographs
  photography.
  

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• noun a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen
  kinescope; television tube.
  

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• noun a large window with a single pane (usually overlooking a view)
  

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• noun a writing system using pictographs
  

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• . (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question . Tylor. (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of the American Indians.

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• a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron.

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• as hung in an exhibition of pictures.

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• a picture made by putting sand of different colors on an adhesive surface.

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• a drawing in monochrome, made in sepia alone, or in sepia with other brown pigments.

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• noun a movie without a soundtrack
  silent movie; silents.
  

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• noun two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together
  stereo; stereoscopic photograph.
  

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• a picture taken by the agency of the sun's rays; a photograph.

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• noun a movie with synchronized speech and singing
  talkie.
  

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• to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.

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• noun photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding
  

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• noun a graphic or vivid verbal description
  picture; delineation; characterization; characterisation; depiction; word-painting.
  
  • too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures
  • the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland
  • the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters

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• an accurate and vivid description, which presents an object clearly to the mind, as if in a picture.

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• noun a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays; used in medical diagnosis
  X ray; X-ray photograph; roentgenogram; X-ray.
  

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