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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Diptych :: Diptych (n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.
Diaphote :: Diaphote (n.) An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph.
Esquisse :: Esquisse (n.) The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.
Dislimn :: Dislimn (v. t.) To efface, as a picture..
Limning :: Limning (n.) The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced..
Melotype :: Melotype (n.) A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself..
Hemisphere :: Hemisphere (n.) Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture..
Distance :: Distance (n.) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape..
Photographical :: Photographical (a.) Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera.
Melanotype :: Melanotype (n.) A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture..
Heliograph :: Heliograph (n.) A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.
Megalethoscope :: Megalethoscope (n.) An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.
Pathos :: Pathos (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry..
Intersperse :: Intersperse (v. t.) To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book..
Iconographic :: Iconographic (a.) Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; as, an icongraphic encyclopaedia..
Transfer :: Transfer (n.) A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another..
Study :: Study (v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture..
Acrophony :: Acrophony (n.) The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.
Bloom :: Bloom (n.) The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
Panel :: Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted..
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