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Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
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picture
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Word definitions for picture in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "drawing, painting," from Latin pictura "painting," from pictus , past participle of pingere "to make pictures, to paint, to embroider," (see paint (v.)). Picture window is from 1938. Picture post-card first recorded 1899. Phrase every picture ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In combinatorial mathematics , a picture is a bijection between skew diagrams satisfying certain properties, introduced by in a generalization of the Robinson–Schensted correspondence and the Littlewood–Richardson rule .
Usage examples of picture.
I was staring up at the stars, thinking of the Gibson and McIlroy and that abo walking out alive, trying to picture what had really happened, my thoughts ranging and the truth elusive.
The people hauled in to testify about why they voted absentee offered a vivid picture of the fierce loyalties, rough politics, and economic pressures that shaped the lives of Arkansas hill people.
She ached to be outside in the fresh air, to be dressed in her oldest jeans, turning over spades full of soft loamy earth, feeling the excitement and pleasure of siting the bulbs, of allowing her imagination to paint for her the colourful picture they would make in the spring, in their uniform beds set among lawn pathways and bordered by a long deep border of old-fashioned perennial plants.
He pictured to himself the moment when he must advance to meet her, and could not help thinking of his little tutor Chufu, above whom he towered by two heads while he was still a boy, and who used to call up his admonitions to him from below.
She forced herself to leave that idyllic picture to examine the rest of the adobe house.
Each frame utilized one of the pictures in order to give the advertiser an idea as to what the finished commercial will look like.
Any picture would have been acceptable to them, and that day many of them even went far afield to obtain a copy of that newspaper.
Clearly, the picture the old sailor had aken of them was the best one.
Dincrist was the picture of a patrician-sportsman, even taller than Alacrity and very fit, white-haired and deeply tanned.
That, at any rate, was the picture Alsa had painted in her piece about him.
Gray pictured the cylinder containing the super-conducting amalgam, how it had levitated.
I painted our amorous combats in a lively and natural manner, for, besides my recollections, I had her living picture before my eyes, and I could follow on her features the various emotions aroused by my recital.
The pictures with which the closet where we breakfasted was adorned were admirable more from the colouring and the design than from the amorous combats they represented.
The fusion of images in this anaglyph requires a memory of 10,000 picture elements.
For some reason he was reminded of pictures of church sanctuaries the anchorite had shown him.