Definition of picture

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Picture (n.) 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..

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Hieroglyphical :: Hieroglyphical (a.) Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk..
Heliotype :: Heliotype (n.) A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
Cyanotype :: Cyanotype (n.) A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.
Mat :: Mat (n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype..
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening..
Galvanograph :: Galvanograph (n.) A copperplate produced by the method of galvanography; also, a picture printed from such a plate..
Slide :: Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope..
Photograph :: Photograph (v. t.) To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group..
Obscene :: Obscene (a/) Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures..
Totem :: Totem (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan..
Chromolithograph :: Chromolithograph (n.) A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
Unfinished :: Unfinished (a.) Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting..
Intensifier :: Intensifier (n.) One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture..
Carnation :: Carnation (n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
Monochromic :: Monochromic (a.) Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture..
Horizon :: Horizon (n.) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line..
Platinotype :: Platinotype (n.) The process by which such pictures are produced.
Middle-ground :: Middle-ground (n.) That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
Xylopyrography :: Xylopyrography (n.) The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture, under Poker..
Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..
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