Picture vs False - What's the difference?
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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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, title= 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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(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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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun 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 a verb picture
is to represent in or with a picture.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.picture
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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,
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* 1000 English basic words ---- ==Guernésiais==Noun
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(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}