to picture
- verb
- /ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/
- And I just can't picture him ever doing that.
- picture in your mind
- picture the main character
- picture an event
Well, I I can I can picture them in some office.
- Well, I I can I can picture them in some office.
- Oh, no, they've made me picture Rudy in the shower.
- I never was able to picture Kong as an old Pomeranian.
- How should we picture what impact that has?
- And it's not complicated at all to picture it and draw drawings.
- OK, in my defiance, I could picture the font in my head.
- And I just can't picture him ever doing that.
- Right now, picture your least favorite employee.
- And now I couldn't even picture not being able to do that.
- This is how Freud pictures the Super ego emerging out of.
- Yeah, picture this, George, picture this if you can.
Examples
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close your eyes and picture them sitting next to you.
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Humming to herself, Emma let herself picture all the things she'd seen.
Fiction book (1990) -
Well, I I can I can picture them in some office.
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How should we picture what impact that has?
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OK, when you picture being old, am I with you?
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Yeah, I, I think I can picture both sides of this.
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Right now, picture your least favorite employee.
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And so if you're listening, just picture her using a cell phone.
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"You know," he said, "I've pictured this a thousand times in my head."
Fiction book (1991) -
When you picture a sunny beach, what do you see in your mind?
Synonyms
To picture something in your mind
To form a picture in your mind of something not real
To picture something in your mind, often a possible future
Form a clear picture of something in your mind
To imagine something as possible
To form a picture in your mind of something not present
Idioms
A view of the whole situation and its most important facts rather than small details
Phrasal Verbs
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
How Vivid
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Picture as a verb comes from the same idea of making an image, so to picture something is to form a mental image or imagine it as if you painted it in your mind. That's why to picture a place is to see it inside your head.