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Also see: card
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.
- 1 represent in a picture.
- 2 form a mental image of.
– phrases
be (or look) a picture
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.
be (or look) a picture
- 1 be beautiful.
- 2 look amusingly startled.
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’.

