Definition: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
Usage: a small painting by Picasso; he bought the painting as an investment; his pictures hang in the Louvre
Similar words: graphic art
Definition: the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking
Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture
Definition: a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
Similar words: representation
Definition: a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
Synonyms: picture, icon, ikon, image
Definition: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
Usage: they showed us the pictures of their wedding; a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
Similar words: representation
Definition: a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
Synonyms: picture
Definition: a typical example of some state or quality
Usage: the very picture of a modern general; she was the picture of despair
Similar words: typification, exemplification
Definition: a representational or typifying form or model
Synonyms: mental picture, picture, impression
Definition: a clear and telling mental image
Usage: 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
Similar words: image, mental image
Definition: an iconic mental representation
Usage: her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
Definition: the visible part of a television transmission
Usage: they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone
Similar words: visual communication
Definition: communication that relies on vision
Synonyms: motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, film, flick, pic, picture, picture show
Definition: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
Usage: they went to a movie every Saturday night; the film was shot on location
Similar words: product, production
Definition: an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
Usage: they improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production
Similar words: show
Definition: a social event involving a public performance or entertainment
Usage: they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway
Synonyms: pictorial matter, picture
Definition: illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
Usage: the dictionary had many pictures
Similar words: illustration
Definition: artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word picture, word-painting, picture
Definition: a graphic or vivid verbal description
Usage: 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
Similar words: verbal description, description
Definition: a statement that represents something in words
Definition: a situation treated as an observable object
Usage: the political picture is favorable; the religious scene in England has changed in the last century
Similar words: situation, state of affairs
Definition: the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
Usage: the present international situation is dangerous; wondered how such a state of affairs had come about; eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D.Roosevelt
Synonyms: figure, envision, fancy, project, picture, see, image, visualise, visualize
Definition: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Usage: I can't see him on horseback!; I can see what will happen; I can see a risk in this strategy
Similar words: envisage, conceive of, ideate, imagine
Definition: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
Usage: Can you conceive of him as the president?
Synonyms: render, picture, show, depict
Definition: show in, or as in, a picture
Usage: This scene depicts country life; the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting
Similar words: represent, interpret
Definition: create an image or likeness of
Usage: The painter represented his wife as a young girl