Nearby Words
picture [pik-cher] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
picture [pik-cher]
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
Example Sentences
  • More than a thousand words, there are a thousand mysteries in a single, sweeping picture.
  • Picture a college student appealing for a higher grade in his professor's office.
  • Hogarth painted a full-length picture of the captain and asked fellow artists to donate their works.
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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: account
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written description of past events
Synonyms: ABCs, annal, blow by blow, bulletin, chronicle, detail, explanation, history, lowdown, make*, narration, narrative, play by play, recital, report, run-down, score, story, tab, take, tale, the picture, the whole picture, version
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: cinema
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: movie industry; movie arena
Synonyms: big screen, bijou, cine, drive-in, film, flicks, motion pictures, movie house, movie theater, moving pictures, nabes, photoplay, picture show, pictures, playhouse, show, silver screen
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
Antonyms: being, concrete
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