picture
- noun
- /ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/
- Specialized
- The weather report showed a live picture of the hurricane approaching the coast.
- picture on the screen
- picture and video
- color picture
And the whole picture starts to spin slowly.
- And the whole picture starts to spin slowly.
- And essentially it is picture eight people over Zoom.
Examples
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The view through the big picture window is entirely normal again: the cityscape by night.
Fiction book (1992) -
When logging in, they see if the picture is displayed to verify they are on the right site.
Academic text (2012) -
But now what if you saw this picture, right?
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Now keep in mind that picture over there to the right.
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And then when you want to see the normal picture, you hit this.
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And we're getting a picture on the TV.
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We're back to a live picture now.
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The investigator asked children to point to the picture that he described.
Academic text (2013) -
Behind her head, the television lost its vertical hold and the picture scrolled slowly upward.
Fiction book (1991) -
During the documentary, we saw many stunning pictures of wildlife captured on camera.
Synonyms
A recording of moving pictures used for entertainment or information
Idioms
A view of the whole situation and its most important facts rather than small details
Compounds
A large fixed window made of one big piece of glass that gives a clear view outside
An American group that gives the Oscars every year for work in movies
- Archaic
A long glass tube inside old televisions that makes the picture on the screen
- Specialized
A flat imagined surface in a picture that seems closest to the viewer
- Archaic
A show that tells a story with moving images and sound like a movie
A public show where moving pictures and sound tell a story, like a film at a cinema
A picture of a face made from what witnesses say to help police identify a suspect
- Specialized
Two photos you view together to make a three-dimensional picture
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Picture is used for the TV image because it means the visual 'image' you see on the screen, like a painting that shows the view separate from the sound. So when the TV 'picture' changes, it is the visible part of the broadcast.