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Antonyms for picture

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : pik-cher
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪk tʃər


Definition of picture

Origin :
  • early 15c., "drawing, painting," from Latin pictura "painting," from pictus, past participle of pingere "to make pictures, to paint, to embroider," (see paint (v.)). Picture window is from 1938. Picture post-card first recorded 1899. Phrase every picture tells a story first attested 1900, in advertisements for an illustrated life of Christ. To be in (or out of) the picture in the figurative sense dates to 1900.
  • Expression a picture is worth a thousand words, attested from 1918, probably was from the publication trade (the notion that a picture was worth 1,000 words is in printers' publications by 1911). The phrase also was in use in the form worth a million words, the form used by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane (1864-1936) in an editorial much-read c.1916 titled "What is a Good Newspaper" in the "New York Evening Journal." In part it read, "After news and humor come good pictures. In this day of hurry we learn through the eye, and one picture may be worth a million words." It seems to have emerged into general use via the medium of advertising (which scaled down the number and also gave the expression its spurious origin story as "a Japanese proverb" or some such thing, by 1919). Earlier various acts or deeds (and in one case "the arrow") were said to be worth a thousand words.
  • noun illustration, likeness of something
  • noun perfect example
  • noun entertainment film
  • verb depict, describe
  • verb form vision in one's mind
Example sentences :
  • As a last rally, he tried to picture the difficulties he might encounter.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Like everything else in that neighborhood, it was covered with picture writing.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • But now the picture that drifted through his mind was still more horrible.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • How different a picture would the streets and public places then present!
  • Extract from : « Sunday under Three Heads » by Charles Dickens
  • There was less diversity of opinion in regard to Elinor's picture.
  • Extract from : « The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The picture, with all its tremendous coloring, was finished.
  • Extract from : « The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • He sat down on the anvil with his heart beating, and began to recall the picture.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • He looked at his hero, and then he looked into his mind and saw the picture of Sally.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • The picture is almost comic in its incongruity with what actually is.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • He is pretty well known, and perhaps the picture will be recognized.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various

Synonyms for picture

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