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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
picture/ˈpɪktʃə(r)/

▶noun

1 a painting, drawing, or photograph.
■ a portrait.

■ an image on a television screen.

2 an impression formed from an account or description: a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged.
■ (often in phr. in (or out of) the picture) informal a state of being fully informed about or involved in something.

3 a cinema film.
■ (the pictures) the cinema.

4 archaic a person or thing resembling another closely.

▶verb

1 represent in a picture.

2 form a mental image of.

– phrases
be (or look) a picture

1 be beautiful.

2 look amusingly startled.

the big picture informal the situation as a whole.
a (or the) picture of —— the embodiment of a specified state or emotion: she looked a picture of health.
(as) pretty as a picture very pretty.

– origin ME: from L. pictura, from pict-, pingere ‘to paint’.

'picture' also found in these Oxford entries:

Academy award - Advent calendar - allegory - atlas - background - back-projection - beetle - cartophily - centrefold - chocolate-box - chrominance - chromolithograph - cigarette card - clapperboard - composite - composition - concept - contrast - cross-fade - detail - draw - drawing - e-fit - envisage - figure - frame - fudge - hang - hieroglyph - highlight - identikit - illustration - image - imagination - imagine - implicature - inset - jigsaw - kinetoscope - landscape - manga - matt - miniature - monitor - monochrome - montage - mosaic - motion picture - mount - nocturne

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