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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illustration, likeness of something |
| Synonyms: | account, art, blueprint, canvas, cartoon, copy, delineation, depiction, description, doodle, double, draft, drawing, duplicate, effigy, engraving, figure, icon, image, impression, lookalike, outline, painting, panorama, photo, photograph, piece, portrait, portrayal, presentment, print, re-creation, replica, report, representation, ringer, similitude, simulacrum, sketch, spectacle, spitting image, statue, tableau, twin |
| Main Entry: | picture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment film |
| Synonyms: | cartoon, cinema, flick, motion picture, movie, moving picture, photoplay, picture show, show |
| Main Entry: | picture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depict, describe |
| Synonyms: | delineate, draw, illustrate, image, interpret, limn, paint, photograph, portray, render, represent, show, sketch |
| Main Entry: | picture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form vision in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | conceive of, create, daydream, dream, envision, fancy, fantasize, imagine, portray, see, see in the mind's eye, visualize |
| Main Entry: | biography |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of person's life |
| Synonyms: | adventures, autobiography, bio, biog, close-up, confessions, diary, experiences, journal, letters, life, life history, life story, memoir, personal account, personal anecdote, personal narrative, personal record, picture, profile, résumé, saga, sketch, vita |
| Main Entry: | canvas |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | painting on coarse material |
| Synonyms: | art, artwork, oil, picture, piece, portrait, still life, watercolor |
| Notes: | canvas is the noun (fabric etc.) and canvass is generally a verb (to solicit, question) - though a canvass can be an examination of pros and cons |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding; idea |
| Synonyms: | apperception, appreciation, apprehension, clue, cogitating, cognition, communing, comprehension, conceit, concentrating, concept, consideration, considering, deliberating, design, dreaming, envisaging, explanation, exposition, fancy, fancying, image, imagining, impression, inkling, intellection, interpretation, meditating, meditation, mental grasp, musing, notion, perception, philosophizing, picture, plan, realization, representation, speculating, speculation, thought, version |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | being, concrete |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | duplicate |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, carbon, cartoon, clone, counterfeit, delineate, depict, ditto, draw, dupe, engrave, engross, fake, forge, imitate, knock off, limn, manifold, mimeo, mirror, mold, paint, paraphrase, photocopy, photostat, picture, plagiarize, portray, reduplicate, reflect, repeat, replicate, represent, reproduce, rewrite, sculpture, simulate, sketch, stat, trace, transcribe |
| Notes: | Xerox is actually a trademark for copies made on that brand of machine; copy is a duplicate made in any of a number of ways, while photocopy is a duplicate made using a machine with a photographic process |
| Main Entry: | data |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information in visible form |
| Synonyms: | abstracts, brass tacks, chapter and verse, circumstances, compilations, conclusions, details, documents, dope, dossier, evidence, experiments, facts, figures, goods, info, input, knowledge, materials, measurements, memorandums, notes, picture, proof, reports, results, scoop, score, statistics, testimony, whole story |
| Notes: | data (plural noun) is a collection of facts, observations, or measurements from which conclusions may be drawn while datum (singular noun) is an item of factual information derived from measurement or research |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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