picture
/ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.13 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
noun
An image; a representation as in the imagination.
noun
A painting.
noun
A photograph.
noun
An attractive sight.
Example Sentences
- "Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft."
- "Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story."
- "My eyes make pictures when they are shut."
- "So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams."
- "Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him[…]as being tall, commanding, and as the advance notices of him, a sliver-tongued orator. I found him, however, to be the opposite of my mental picture; short, squat, unpretentious[…]."
- "There was a picture hanging above the fireplace."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: picture, pictūra
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/
- British English: /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
pictures (plural)
pickchah (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
pickchuh (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
pitcha (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
pitchah (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
pitcher (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
pitchuh (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
pitchur (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
pictures (present, singular)
picturing (participle, present)
pictured (participle, past)
pictured (past)