Noun

(en noun)

A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.

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(mathematics)   A function.

The discrete topology is always continuous, therefore functions with discrete domains are always maps.

(topology)   A continuous function.

A diagram of components of an item.

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The butterfly .

(UK, old-fashioned)   Someone's face.

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(board games, computer games)   A predefined and confined imaginary area where a game session takes place.

"I don't want to play this map again!"

Noun

(en noun)

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

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*: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.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

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An image; a representation as in the imagination.

*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

*:My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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*: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.

*2007 , The Workers' Republic

*: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.

A painting.

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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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A photograph.

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(label) A motion picture.

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("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).

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A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).

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The art of painting; representation by painting.

*Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)

*:any well-expressed imageeither in picture or sculpture

A figure; a model.

*(James Howell) (c.1594–1666)

*:the young king's picture in virgin wax