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Forming mental images of
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picturing
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. depiction vb. (present participle of picture English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. visual imagery [syn: envisioning ] visual representation as by photography or painting [syn: pictorial representation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Picture \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.'' ...
Usage examples of picturing.
He remembered his cruel joy in picturing their disgust at being compelled to carry out the terms of such a will.
He was a man of peculiarly Spanish turn of mind, fond of the brutal and the bloody, picturing inquisition scenes, bull-fights, battle pieces, and revelling in caricature, sarcasm, and ridicule.
Low Countries who were emphatically of the soil, believing in themselves and their own country and picturing scenes from commonplace life in a manner quite their own.
So we see that the concepts Dry and Moist, as they lived in the old picturing of them, mean a good deal more than we understand by them to-day.
Instead of picturing to ourselves, as is usually done, light-rays which are shifted away from or towards the perpendicular at the border-plane between two media of different optical properties, we shall rather build up the picture as light itself designs it into space.
For a consistent scientific thinking that goes this way, therefore, nothing is left but to recognize chaos as the only real basis of an apparently ordered world, a chaos on whose surface the laws that seem to hold sway are only the illusory picturings of the human mind.