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| Ricture | n. [ L. ringi, rictus, to open wide the mouth, to gape. ] A gaping. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Picture | n. [ L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint. ] 1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model. [ 1913 Webster ] Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief. [ 1913 Webster ] My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
Animated picture, a moving picture. --
Picture gallery, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures. --
Picture red, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung. --
Picture writing. (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. Tylor. (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of the American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]
Syn. -- Picture, Painting. Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Picture | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pictured p. pr. & vb. n. Picturing. ] To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. “I . . . do picture it in my mind.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] I have not seen him so pictured. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Pictured | a. Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Picturer | n. One who makes pictures; a painter. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Picturesque | a. [ It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial. ] Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. [ 1913 Webster ] What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ] -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Picturesquish | a. Somewhat picturesque. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
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| | picture | (n) ภาพวาด, See also: รูปวาด, รูปภาพ, Syn. drawing, painting, photograph | | picture | (n) จอภาพ (โทรทัศน์) | | picture | (n) ์คำบรรยายที่ทำให้เห็นภาพ, See also: ถ้อยคำพรรณนาทำให้เห็นภาพ, ภาพพจน์, Syn. account, description | | picture | (n) ์ภาพความทรงจำ | | picture | (n) สถานการณ์ | | picture | (n) ภาพยนตร์, See also: หนัง, Syn. cinema, film, motion picture, movie | | picture | (vt) นึกภาพ, See also: จินตนาการ, นึกหลับตา, Syn. conceive of, imagine | | picture | (vt) บรรยาย, See also: พรรณนา, Syn. depict, describe | | picture | (vt) ถ่ายเป็นภาพยนตร์ | | picture | (vt) วาดภาพ, See also: ระบาย, Syn. draw, paint |
| | | | พระรูป | (n) picture, See also: photo, photograph, Syn. รูปภาพ, รูปถ่าย, Example: แสตมป์พระรูป ร.9 ชุด 8 ทั้งชุดมีทั้งหมด 43 ดวง, Thai Definition: รูปภาพหรือรูปถ่ายของพระมหากษัตริย์และเจ้านาย, Notes: (ราชา) | | ภาพ | (n) picture, See also: drawing, sketch, painting, image, vision, Example: ความคิดคือความสามารถของมนุษย์ที่จะวาดภาพถึงอะไรๆ ได้ โดยไม่ต้องมีวัตถุจริงๆ มาปรากฏ, Count Unit: ภาพ, Thai Definition: รูปที่ปรากฏเห็น, สิ่งที่วาดขึ้นเป็นรูป, Notes: (บาลี/สันสกฤต) | | รูปภาพ | (n) picture, See also: photograph, drawing, painting, illustration, image, portrait, Example: ไม่มีข้อความใดที่จะบรรยายรายละเอียดได้ดีเท่ารูปภาพ, Count Unit: รูป | | จิตรเลขา | (n) picture, See also: portrait, Syn. รูปภาพ, Notes: (สันสกฤต) |
| | | | | | picture | (n) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface, Syn. icon, ikon, image, Example: they showed us the pictures of their wedding; a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them | | picture | (n) a situation treated as an observable object, Syn. scene, Example: the political picture is favorable; the religious scene in England has changed in the last century | | picture | (n) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text, Syn. pictorial matter, Example: the dictionary had many pictures | | picture | (n) a typical example of some state or quality, Example: the very picture of a modern general; she was the picture of despair | | picture | (v) show in, or as in, a picture, Syn. render, depict, show, Example: This scene depicts country life; the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting | | picture book | (n) a book consisting chiefly of pictures | | picture frame | (n) a framework in which a picture is mounted | | picture hat | (n) a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim | | picture plane | (n) the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work | | picture postcard | (n) a postcard with a picture on one side |
| | 画像 | [がぞう, gazou] TH: รูปภาพ | | 画像 | [がぞう, gazou] EN: picture |
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