1. [n]  graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre"
2. [n]  a visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
3. [n]  a typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair"
4. [n]  a clear and telling mental image; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind"
5. [n]  the visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
6. [n]  a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
7. [n]  illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures"
8. [n]  a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
9. [n]  a situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
10. [v]  imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
11. [v]  show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"

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This is the complete series of essays from The New Yorker , first published in book form in 1952, of Lillian Ross`s account of the making of John Huston`s film The Red Badge of Courage . It became, and remains, one of the best literary depictions of Hollywood. Picture received tremendous praise not only for the sheer quality of the writing, but also for its technical innovation--the presentation of reporting as a novel.

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1. \Liv"ing pic"ture\
   A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a
   tableau as imitating a work of art.
   

2. \Pic"ture\, n.
   {Animated picture}, a moving picture. Pierre-perdu
   

3. \Pic"ture\, n. [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to
   paint: cf. F. peinture. See {Paint}.]
   1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]
            Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or
            sculpture.                            --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.
   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.
            Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
                                                  --Bacon.
            The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.
                                                  --Howell.
   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.
            My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
                                                  --Coleridge.
   Note: 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.
   {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.
   Syn: {Picture}, {Painting}.
   Usage: 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.
   

4. \Pic"ture\, 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.
         I have not seen him so pictured.         --Shak.
   

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