picture
picture (pĭkʹchər) noun
1. A visual representation or image painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface.
2. A visible image, especially one on a flat surface: the picture reflected in the lake.
3. a. A vivid or realistic verbal description: a Shakespearean picture of guilt. b. A vivid mental image.
4. A person or an object bearing a marked resemblance to another: She's the picture of her mother.
5. A person, an object, or a scene that typifies or embodies an emotion, a state of mind, or a mood: Your face was the very picture of horror.
6. The chief circumstances of an event or time; a situation.
7. A movie.
8. A tableau vivant.
verb, transitive
pictured, picturing, pictures
1. To make a visible representation of.
2. To form a mental image of; visualize.
3. To describe vividly in words; make a verbal picture of: He pictured her heroism in glowing language. See synonyms at represent.
[Middle English, from Latin pictūra, from pictus, painted past participle of pingere, to paint.]