What is the meaning of picture?

noun

• 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"
  • synonyms: image, icon, ikon
• 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"
  • synonyms: painting
• 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"
  • synonyms: mental picture, impression
• A situation treated as an observable object.
  • usage: "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
  • synonyms: scene
• Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text.
  • usage: "the dictionary had many pictures"
  • synonyms: pictorial matter
• 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"
  • synonyms: movie, film, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
• The visible part of a television transmission.
  • usage: "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
  • synonyms: video
• 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"
  • synonyms: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, characterization, characterisation
• A typical example of some state or quality.
  • usage: "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
• A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material.
  • synonyms: photograph, photo, exposure, pic

verb

• 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"
  • synonyms: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, image
• 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"
  • synonyms: depict, render, show