What is the difference between pictorial and picture?
pictorial | picture |
Of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures.
Described or otherwise represented as if in a picture; graphic or vivid.
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Stylistically similar to a painting, especially following pictorial conventions (of a photograph) – see pictorialism.
a newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof
an article primarily featuring many photographs, or simply a collection of photographs
(philately) a stamp featuring a vignette of local scenery or culture.
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.
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*(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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(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
To represent in or with a picture.
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To imagine or envision.
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To depict.
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Picture is a related term of pictorial.
As nouns the difference between pictorial and picture
is that pictorial is a newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof while picture is a representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.As an adjective pictorial
is of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures.As a verb picture is
to represent in or with a picture.pictorial
English
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Usage notes
Can be used comparatively “Could you give a more pictorial treatment of this subject?” but this usage is uncommon.Derived terms
* pictorial convention * pictorialism * pictoriallyNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Individual titles will be capitalized e.g. "Sunday Pictorial" * In sense “an article consisting primarily of photographs”, particularly used of photographs of people, as in “The budding starlet is featured in a pictorial in a glossy magazine next week.”Coordinate terms
* (collection of images) gallery, slideshowpicture
English
Noun
(en noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
citation, passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures , mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
Synonyms
* (representation as in the imagination) imageDerived terms
* out of the picture * picture-perfect * picture postcard * (as) pretty as a picture * the big picture * picturesque * picture framingVerb
(pictur)- Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,