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Synonyms for pictured

Grammar : Verb
Spell : pik-cher
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪk tʃər

Top 10 synonyms for pictured
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Définition of pictured

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.
  • verb depict, describe
  • verb form vision in one's mind
Example sentences :
  • "Compare the living face with the pictured one," said the painter.
  • Extract from : « The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Many times she turned restlessly in her bed as she pictured what would happen.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • She pictured Martin and herself sitting beside it in the winter evenings.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • I pictured them in four separate heaps in the snow, all weeping.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • Strange, then, that while I have so often pictured what love should be, I have never felt it.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • You can see a table much like this in the garden pictured later.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
  • "You will now see the other ogre," he said, and I pictured to myself the other ogre as charming as his partner.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • And I pictured her like that, quite bare, quite simple, and very lofty.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • But how different was her silence from the quiet I had pictured.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
  • You've pictured one spot of efficiency in a whole dreary desert of waste.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

Antonyms for pictured

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