The Collaborative International Dictionary
Picture \Pic"ture\, n. [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint.]
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The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]
Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture.
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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.
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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. Animated picture, a moving picture. 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.
The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question.
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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.
WordNet
n. a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited [syn: gallery, art gallery]
Wikipedia
Picture Gallery is a solitaire game using two decks of playing cards. The object of the game is to move cards to the foundations to create a gallery full of picture or face cards.
Usage examples of "picture gallery".
Garbed in a pale dressing gown that floated out behind her, candle in hand, Augusta was heading for the long picture gallery that fronted the house.
If you will permit me, I shall be happy to show you my picture gallery, composed entirely of works by the ancient masters —.
The corridor was wide and lofty, more like a picture gallery than a corridor, but Kotchubey only went a few yards along it.
She was led down it to the hall, and across this to a picture gallery, where brocade curtains shrouded no fewer than fifteen very tall windows.
On either side, two arms of the grand staircase swept up to a balcony overlooking the next set of steps I was about to take, the doorway at the top leading to the long picture gallery where they thought they'd had me trapped.