n.
- a painting, drawing, or photograph.
▸a portrait.
▸an image on a television screen.
- an impression formed from an account or description:
a full picture of the disaster had not yet emerged.
▸
(often in phr. in or out of the picture)
informal a state of being fully informed about or involved in something.
- a cinema film.
▸
(the pictures)
the cinema.
- archaic a person or thing resembling another closely.
v.
- represent in a picture.
- form a mental image of.
Phrase
Etymology
ME: from L. pictura, from pict-, pingere ‘to paint’.