What does picture mean

Crossword clues for picture

picture

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

picture

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a clear picture/idea (=a good understanding)

▪ Some work experience should give you a clear idea of what the job involves.

a comprehensive picture

▪ The police still do not have a comprehensive picture of what happened.

a picture dictionary (=containing a lot of pictures, especially for children or beginners in a language)

▪ The advantage of a picture dictionary is that you don't have lengthy definitions.

a picture/portrait gallery

▪ The picture gallery is full of treasures.

a wedding photograph/picture

▪ my mother’s old wedding photographs

an exclusive report/interview/picture (=appearing in only one newspaper or magazine)

▪ The newspaper featured exclusive pictures of the couple’s new baby.

build (up) a picture of sb/sth (=form a clear idea about someone or something)

▪ We’re trying to build up a picture of what happened.

compromising letter/photograph/picture etc

conjure up images/pictures/thoughts etc (of sth)

▪ Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads.

door/window/picture frame

mental picture/image (=a picture that you form in your mind)

▪ I tried to get a mental picture of him from her description.

motion picture

▪ the motion picture industry

moving picture

paint a grim/rosy/gloomy picture of sb/sth

▪ Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.

painted a rosy picture

▪ Letters to relatives in Europe painted a rosy picture of life in the United States.

paints a gloomy picture

▪ The report paints a gloomy picture of the economy.

picture book

picture card

picture messaging

picture postcard

picture quality (also image quality)

▪ Does this type of TV set have a better picture quality?

picture rail

picture window

take a picture/photograph/photo

▪ Would you mind taking a photo of us together?

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

accurate

▪ The artist was determined to present an accurate picture.

▪ You can't get an accurate picture off television.

▪ To assess whether this is an accurate picture it is necessary to address the question as to whether crime itself is predominantly working-class.

▪ By doing so, he would more easily be able to form an accurate picture of his father as well.

▪ This reduces the workload and helps in the production of a more comprehensive and accurate picture.

▪ It hopes this will give it a more accurate picture of the actual casualty rate.

▪ By simply questioning informants it is difficult to get an accurate picture of where and when Creole is actually used at home.

▪ Rangers have been shot and no one has an accurate picture of what has happened to the wildlife there.

big

▪ On the wall there was a big picture of Sir Anthony at the piano.

▪ No one in the boats has the luxury of seeing the big picture, of viewing Fuji majestic in the distance.

▪ Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture.

▪ This is no longer a team involved in the big picture.

▪ It was part of their mystique: total command of the big picture combined with the ability to delegate technical details.

▪ Yet it was not until researchers extended the same effort to the oceans that the bigger tectonic picture fell into place.

▪ Tough it may be, but you have to rise above it and appreciate the bigger picture.

▪ But Stack is a big idea, big picture kind of guy.

clear

▪ By applying a set of pragmatic guidelines to software choice a clearer picture of the more attractive options emerges.

▪ The Guttmacher study does not paint a clear statistical picture.

▪ I personally doubt whether any clear evolutionary picture would emerge if we were to base ourselves simply on Formen.

▪ Attempts to gain a clearer picture of this boundary layer floundered for several decades.

▪ A team at University College, London, produced the first clear pictures of interiors, using microchips as the specimens.

▪ At last, a clear picture of music lovers and lovers.

▪ Governors will have a clearer picture of what actually takes place in school.

▪ I need you to paint me a clear picture of the changes you expect to see three months down the road.

complete

▪ Often, the media convey a fairly complete picture of the events in question.

▪ Those who want a more complete picture of Kelly must consult the hefty, liberally illustrated catalog.

▪ It helps management build a complete picture of various types of absence, and to identify potential abuses.

▪ Time spent building a complete picture of your ideal position will be well spent.

▪ Inventories, therefore, do not give a complete picture of a person's wealth.

▪ I gave him a more complete picture of my risk profile.

▪ But he talked so damn much, let slip a lot of details that added up to a fairly complete picture.

▪ Every month the Shell Gold Card provides a series of reports which give you a complete picture of your fleet's performance.

different

▪ Your brain gets two slightly different pictures of the pencil - one from each eye.

▪ Goodman presents quite a different picture.

▪ The number of passives produced in response to the different pictures varied considerably.

▪ However, if shown a new and different picture, they demonstrate renewed inter-est.

▪ Your brain uses the slightly different pictures from each eye to judge distance accurately.

▪ Powell's visit last month as secretary of state presented a vastly different picture.

▪ I want to defend a radically different picture, which takes a much broader historical perspective.

▪ Shift the frame ever so slightly, and you get a completely different picture.

gloomy

▪ No doubt that was too gloomy a picture.

▪ He brings a book of verse with a few gloomy pictures.

▪ It is not a particularly gloomy financial picture for you, just a rather unstable one.

▪ Malthus' gloomy picture of human life seems to many contemporary commentators much too atomistic and adversarial.

▪ All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture.

▪ There was one solitary corrective to this gloomy picture.

▪ Domestic economic factors further complicated this gloomy picture.

▪ They objected to being given an unnecessarily gloomy picture at first.

good

▪ Lee must win best foreign-language picture Oscar this spring-or indeed best picture.

▪ In this eccentric Oscar year, will the simple virtues prevail when it comes to the best picture category?

▪ It might have been a better picture.

▪ Babe G A best picture Oscar nominee.

▪ It was a good picture before it became a bad picture.

▪ This single episode gave me a very good picture of Harold Wilson's qualities and defects.

▪ And for once there is no lack of likely names for the final two best picture slots.

main

▪ Our main picture shows an Ancistrus described as a Chubby Bristlenose.

▪ The male is to the front. Main picture: The female takes a breather.

mental

▪ Disappointment followed, the lurid projector of mental pictures shut down and I was left feeling I ought to have known better.

▪ As they crossed Park Avenue, he had a mental picture of what an ideal pair they made.

▪ This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technical options are discussed.

▪ They learn to let words create a mental picture and to then make a replica of their vision.

▪ She had a mental picture of Samuel Roberts' fine, hard face.

▪ Somewhere between the event and the sentence is a mental picture.

▪ When she switched on the light her cosy mental picture was shattered by crude reality.

▪ They make a funny mental picture because she is so short and he is so tall, just for starters.

overall

▪ The overall world picture shows: The basic modes of transmission have not changed.

▪ Herodotos gives mainly an account of single ships' actions; he adds details, but gives no overall picture.

▪ The overall picture today, however, is of a decreasing number of musically-skilled people.

▪ Using distance, parsimony and maximum-likelihood methods the overall picture of eukaryote small-subunit rRNA phylogeny remains unchanged.

▪ What is the overall picture of the process of addictive disease?

▪ It is the overall picture that matters.

▪ The graph provides an overall picture of the data which makes spotting trend or correlation of data in your spreadsheet.

▪ The overall picture, however, is of a lack of systematic training in church music for ordinands.

pretty

▪ Individuals painted a pretty grim picture of the pressures within social security offices.

▪ Not a pretty picture, is it?

▪ All in all, it is a pretty unconvincing picture.

▪ This is not going to be a pretty picture.

▪ And the charter made a pretty picture.

▪ She wanted more than the two dimensions of pretty pictures, more than the garbled pidgin of kitchen natives.

▪ But the countryside is more than just a pretty picture.

▪ Bright blue hyperlinks. Pretty pictures.

vivid

▪ There are extraordinarily vivid and exuberant pictures which are countered by others which have an almost penitential mood to them.

▪ But from the log books of 100 years ago, there is a very vivid picture of school life in Bentley.

▪ Nice vivid pictures, despite working on old computers.

▪ He also describes vivid pictures with extreme detail and.

▪ Her imagination conjured up an erotically vivid picture and she knew a hectic flush had risen to her cheeks.

▪ Memories tumbled out, dancing past her closed eyes in a vivid string of pictures.

▪ But he had a vivid picture of her in his mind, lean and hungry in her scarlet bathing suit.

▪ Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.

whole

▪ So the whole picture comes together.

▪ However, although we can keep this association in mind, it does not give us the whole picture.

▪ He may additionally, by dream mechanisms and current computation, try to fashion in a whole technicolor picture of the scenery.

▪ Essentially, creativity, as Coleridge sees it, comes down to the ability to perceive the whole picture.

▪ We never really get the whole picture.

▪ But it is not the whole picture.

■ NOUN

book

▪ Bodiam is a picture book castle and a favourite with children of all ages.

▪ They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes, look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.

▪ Roald Dahl's last picture book tells how Billy rescued the tiny Minpins from the smoke belching Gruncher.

▪ A five-page picture book is needed to explain the steps required to release and lift the hood of army vehicles.

▪ Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her.

▪ One of the greatest historians for children is the author Jean Fritz who has written historical novels and picture books.

▪ Colouring books help their writing skills ... picture books help their reading skills ... counting books help them with their numbers.

▪ One-night picture books require parents to select and begin a new story every night.

frame

▪ She was appalled when he explained to her she would be required to pose in a picture frame.

▪ He regilded picture frames, glued back together broken cups and plates.

▪ Burst walls, the marks of picture frames, the shadow of a crucifix.

▪ It was empty apart from a round wooden table, a large golden picture frame on one wall and a cupboard.

▪ The tube is a flat glass panel like a thick picture frame.

▪ It will all look so much nicer than bits of tied drying holly tucked into picture frames.

▪ Each door had two handles on either side and on walls hung wooden and metal picture frames.

▪ In distinguishing between these two, Gombrich uses the picture frame as an example of design.

motion

▪ It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture.

▪ Those who invest with him get the motion picture -- meaning his ongoing judgment, including when to sell.

▪ What had to be done was that motion pictures had to be made respectable.

▪ As per above, but for motion pictures.

▪ On a motion picture I have a team of anywhere from one hundred to two hundred people.

▪ Creativity is required, then, for the banker as well as the motion picture director.

▪ The revolution began with the invention of motion picture film early in the twentieth century.

▪ She became adept at filming with a motion picture camera as well as still camera.

postcard

▪ Anyone who can help with old picture postcards or other memorabilia can contact Chris on Darlington.

▪ She had not even sent me a picture postcard.

▪ Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards.

▪ It was too perfect; a picture postcard blown up to the scale of real life.

▪ A few picture postcards casually sent could not be considered remembering in any serious sense.

▪ It's a picture postcard brought to life.

▪ For Katherine the landscape bore none of the familiarity of a picture postcard.

▪ They could have been painted from picture postcards and probably were.

window

▪ Now, at the Mirage, Ali stands and walks stiffly towards the picture windows overlooking Las Vegas.

▪ Some one looking through the picture window spotted Lois before she got more than half way up the front walk.

▪ The picture windows shattered, and the bar cracked apart where the bullets went in.

▪ Although it is July, the house has a Christmas wreath hung in its picture window.

▪ Next door, where Ed Preston lived, somebody is watching me from the picture window.

▪ All staterooms are outside with large picture windows and private bathroom facilities.

▪ He was standing in the dark, in front of a picture window, fireworks exploding silently behind him.

▪ He fixed the bedroom and picture windows, glazing the edges of the glass with care.

■ VERB

build

▪ How do you build up the picture in a regression session?

▪ In Vera Cruz, a mob gathered in front of the government building and demanded a picture of Santa Anna.

▪ These shapes are built into moving pictures which are inspired by those drawn by Blake to illustrate stories from the Bible.

▪ Time spent building a complete picture of your ideal position will be well spent.

▪ It helps management build a complete picture of various types of absence, and to identify potential abuses.

▪ Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton.

▪ By using overlays, one can build up a picture stage by stage.

▪ You might argue that such an investigation, though time-consuming, would enable you to build up the picture you want.

draw

▪ Repeated commissions and zemstvo investigations drew a grim picture of peasant destitution and growing frustration.

▪ You might encourage them by drawing a picture of a playground slide.

▪ I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm.

▪ How does it look now? Draw a picture of what you actually see.

▪ To help you complete this plan, try to draw a picture that you will associate with your goal.

▪ As the students are drawing, walk around to be sure that they are drawing an exact picture of the hanging hammer.

▪ Yet all of the children could draw a picture of themselves and their shadow.

▪ He drew some pictures for me, holding the marker awkwardly.

emerge

▪ A similar picture emerges in relation to the distribution of gross earnings among female manual workers.

▪ A similar tax preparation picture emerges at the California state level.

▪ I personally doubt whether any clear evolutionary picture would emerge if we were to base ourselves simply on Formen.

▪ It may be some time before a clear picture of economic activity emerges, analysts said.

▪ Despite the limitations of the available data, the picture which emerges from this review is complex and interesting.

▪ A contrasting picture emerged from Gen.

▪ At the regional scale a much more varied picture of bus services emerges.

▪ A similar picture emerges in the case of women except that women's earnings at all levels are only two-thirds of men's.

give

▪ The absolute size of population gains and losses gives a slightly different picture of regional change.

▪ A longer view can give us a clearer picture.

▪ Herodotos gives mainly an account of single ships' actions; he adds details, but gives no overall picture.

▪ It gives a dynamic picture of science rather than the static account of the most naive falsificationists.

▪ To give a full picture of this past is a daunting task, not within the scope of this book.

▪ They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground.

▪ However, although we can keep this association in mind, it does not give us the whole picture.

▪ First, you must decide on the sort of atmosphere that you wish to give your picture.

look

▪ She looked a picture of health as she was cuddled by her relieved mum Michelle and dad David.

▪ Find a page with a picture. Look at the picture.

▪ But yesterday, she looked a picture of gloom.

▪ Application With your students, read the paragraph and look at the labeled picture on the application sheet.

▪ There was, however, nothing phony about his powers of connoisseurship, and looking at pictures with him was fascinating.

▪ Application With the class, look at some pictures of different animals.

▪ He was looking closely at the picture in his hand.

▪ Rufus had not looked at the picture for years.

paint

▪ Mr Howard painted a picture of industrial unrest under Labour rivalling the worst days of the 1970s.

▪ In recent weeks and months, the headlines have painted a picture of an industry in crisis.

▪ The final story began when Jane painted a picture.

▪ Their thinking may include negative self-talk that paints a picture of current and future failure.

▪ All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture.

▪ Do all these dealings paint a picture of a couple who have maintained sole and separate property, as they have maintained?

▪ I do not understand how the Government can paint the picture that they have.

▪ You need to compose your career the way you would write a piece of music or paint a picture.

present

▪ The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time.

▪ Goodman presents quite a different picture.

▪ The artist was determined to present an accurate picture.

▪ To present such a picture of a typical abusive marriage is misleading.

▪ Other counties present a similar picture.

▪ Powell's visit last month as secretary of state presented a vastly different picture.

▪ But in order to keep the argument as clear as possible we presented a fairly static picture of the class structure.

▪ Alternatively, the students could draw pictures rather than write stories and present their pictures to the class.

produce

▪ These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient's internal organs.

▪ But the magazine hit back by producing a picture of Mrs Barantes with one of their journalists.

▪ Two photographers have produced pictures of Simpson wearing the shoes at a November 1993 Buffalo Bills football game.

▪ Heat detection produces pictures at night.

▪ Indeed, that is certainly true, but we must bear in mind the way that the computer actually produces these pictures.

▪ Another use is to produce pictures of an unborn baby by reflecting ultrasonic waves off its body.

▪ Class based analyses which exclude them therefore produce a misleading picture of inequalities in child health.

provide

▪ Environmental forecasting Scanning and monitoring provide a picture of what has already taken place and what is happening.

▪ The spate of incidents may provide a clearer picture of changes that might be needed in those regulations.

▪ The graph provides an overall picture of the data which makes spotting trend or correlation of data in your spreadsheet.

▪ Today, the other fast-food chains provide the pictures too.

▪ This is operating normally, providing pictures with the usual 80 m resolution.

▪ They have a wide view to help them look out for the hunters. Provide the students with pictures of animals.

▪ This provides a very clear picture of the total activity although the order of doing things may not be obvious.

▪ Now, videotape provides instant pictures, which solves the problem of processing delays.

see

▪ These styles can be seen in the pictures of mod rallies at seaside towns.

▪ On the Cover they saw the picture of a Negro author, and they commented on that.

▪ There were two easels in the room and on one she saw an unfinished picture.

▪ Strangely, I have never seen pictures of smiling persons with shopping carts standing over piles of steak.

▪ Hindelang reviewed a series of such studies to see how different a picture they gave from arrest or court data.

▪ I saw a picture of that boat last week.

show

▪ A tree is shown in the Niobid picture, trees and small plants in the vase illustrated in figs. 109 and 116.

▪ Make contact. Show them pictures of your hometown.

▪ This miracle shows a picture of the Church.

▪ He did not attempt to show those pictures to the jury.

▪ I showed them a picture of a sheep and they didn't believe that it existed.

▪ For instance, why is showing an unflattering picture of Bob Dole in a television commercial such a terrible crime?

▪ Journalists were shown reassuring pictures aimed at proving how technology helps control natural phenomena.

▪ The flowers alone had cost five thousand, and the paper showed pictures of father and daughter.

take

▪ Younis told me that they'd taken my picture because I'd hidden it.

▪ My father is taking a picture of us on this very important day.

▪ She took her pictures down from the wall.

▪ Now I understand, as I back away, claiming to need a better angle from which to take a picture.

▪ But when the paparazzi responded by taking pictures of Buckingham Palace-based Mr Arbiter, he angrily demanded their names.

▪ What do they take from these pictures?

▪ Setting up the picture Briefing To take really good pictures photographers need to be properly briefed.

▪ He took some still pictures of them with his Leica, and they immediately formed groups, asking him to take more.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cloud the issue/picture etc

▪ These comments should not be allowed to cloud the picture too much.

library pictures/footage

pretty as a picture

▪ Francesca was as pretty as a picture and apparently glowing with health.

▪ Property: Not quite as pretty as a picture A house committed to canvas is a house that's easy to sell.

▪ Rachel looked as pretty as a picture, her lovely body warmly covered by a grey riding cloak lined with miniver fur.

▪ She looked surprised, and threw up her hands, pretty as a picture, then began to set the chessmen afresh.

the larger issues/question/problem/picture

▪ But the larger picture is systematically distorted by the military and political calculations concerning the strategic uses of information and disinformation.

▪ Here we are concerned with the larger problem of the relationship between men as a class and other animals as a class.

▪ It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.

▪ Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.

▪ She was blind to the larger picture that involves building and maintaining good relationships with both fellow-workers and superiors.

▪ That ignorance is at the root of geophysicists' struggle with the larger problem of how the whole earth works.

▪ Too much, and the larger picture might become apparent.

▪ You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting.

the wider context/issues/picture etc

▪ As ever, context is important, particularly the wider context of New Testament teaching.

▪ Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture.

▪ It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.

▪ More broadly, it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence.

▪ That fact must be put in the wider context.

▪ The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.

▪ We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work.

▪ What interpretations of the wider issues should it consider?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Pictures of her family covered the coffee table.

▪ an early picture by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet

▪ By the 1930s, Garbo was reportedly earning $250,000 a picture.

▪ Daisy did a lovely picture of a cat at school today.

▪ I didn't know the word in Japanese so I drew a little picture.

▪ I still have a vivid picture in my head of my first day in Paris.

▪ Leo's picture is in the paper today.

▪ The picture's all fuzzy.

▪ The house belonged to the Duke of Wellington, and his picture hangs in the hall.

▪ There was a picture of a windmill on the bedroom wall.

▪ To get a better picture of how the company is doing, look at sales.

▪ Van Gogh's "Sunflowers' is one of the most famous pictures in the world.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ After all this rigmarole, they were to write a story to fit the words and pictures they had chosen.

▪ An alarming picture encapsulated a false belief.

▪ Lee must win best foreign-language picture Oscar this spring-or indeed best picture.

▪ My picture of Saja was correct only in the fact that he was a glutton.

▪ The media are merely the messengers, sometimes further sensationalizing and then passing along the false picture that has been painted.

▪ They posed for pictures with him in the tunnel outside the clubhouse.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

above

▪ A liver version of their personalised pennant is pictured above.

▪ She's pictured above, relaxing in a simple but effective room with beams and bare brickwork.

▪ Mrs Scott, pictured above, first took the plunge in 1993 when she converted a house into two flats.

▪ The young boy pictured above is 13 years old and works a minimum of 12 hours a day.

▪ They are pictured above with Albert Lee.

▪ Some of the principal speakers who took part in the Council's 21st International Forum are pictured above.

▪ Jasper Carrott and Phil pictured above are the comedians in question.

here

▪ They're pictured here in their brand new packs.

▪ A mild whitefish fillet can be substituted for the tuna pictured here.

▪ The Manzi brothers, pictured here, are unafraid of clothes that suggest they need ironing.

▪ Lady fern, pictured here, has an elegant appearance with graceful fronds up to three feet in length.

▪ You can add a touch of floral style to your correspondence with the attractive Lady Margaret stationery pictured here.

▪ Mr Beechey, pictured here a few days after the body of his neighbour was discovered, said nothing during the hearing.

▪ Robert's grandfather, Thomas, created the marvellous cake pictured here to celebrate George V's coronation in 1911.

right

▪ Her eyes lit up as she spotted Spartacus hunk Kirk-at 83 just a year her junior and pictured right.

■ NOUN

man

▪ I pictured a man taking leave of his motor; wobbling from the fast lane towards the hard shoulder.

▪ He kept picturing an old man with a hoe, how the poor guy went skidding through the powdery red dust.

▪ She pictured the man stamping down through his pub, irate and duty-bound.

▪ For a moment he pictured the man in his civilian life.

mind

▪ If a story was written skillfully enough to include vivid descriptions, Louisa pictured them in her mind.

▪ He pictured them in his mind, and recoiled from the thought.

▪ Nutty, picturing in her mind the agility required of the cross-country performer, ground her teeth with frustration.

scene

▪ He could picture the scene as if it were yesterday.

▪ I can picture the romantic scene now.

▪ She smiled involuntarily as she pictured the scene.

woman

▪ He'd pictured her as a woman willing to trade physical favours in exchange for her goals.

▪ We, on the other hand, picture a serenely content woman with a baby in her arms.

▪ They pictured Soviet women as hammer-throwers, brawny six-footers who work in brick factories.

▪ They picture women gathered together to dance or perform some apparently ritualistic act of worship.

■ VERB

try

▪ When I wake up, at almost half past eight, I try to picture Agnes.

▪ She tried to picture Benedict thus, but the image would not form.

▪ Close your eyes and try to picture them.

▪ She bowed her head in pain as she tried to picture the face of her husband.

▪ I try to picture the basilica and the beautiful little medieval town of Assisi, tucked into the side of Mount Subasio.

▪ She must not try to picture Ruth in that house.

▪ I tried picturing Detroit, Michigan.