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Picture vs Flick - What's the difference?

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Flick is a synonym of picture.



In informal terms the difference between picture and flick

is that picture is a motion picture while flick is a motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.

As nouns the difference between picture and flick

is that 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 while flick is a short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.

As verbs the difference between picture and flick

is that picture is to represent in or with a picture while flick is to move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.

picture

English

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
    • , author= , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w) , title= 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.}}
  • 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)
    • , chapter=3 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.}}
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * (representation as in the imagination) image

    Derived terms

    * out of the picture * picture-perfect * picture postcard * (as) pretty as a picture * the big picture * picturesque * picture framing

    Verb

    (pictur)
  • To represent in or with a picture.
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  • To imagine or envision.
  • * 1967 , ,
    • Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,
  • To depict.
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    • Related terms

    * depict * depiction * pictorial

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    Noun

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    • flick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
    • He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.
    She gave a disdainful flick of her hair and marched out of the room.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 5 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Newcastle 0 - 0 West Ham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=On this occasion it was Nolan's deft flick that fooled West Ham's sleepy defenders Danny Gabbidon and Tomkins. The ball found its way to Best, who smashed in with confidence from the edge of the area.}}
  • (informal) A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
    • My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."
    Want to go to the flicks tonight?
  • (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
  • (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=June 28 , author=David Ornstein , title=Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.}}
  • The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
  • A flitch.
    • a flick of bacon

    Synonyms

    * (short, quick movement)'' fillip (''of the finger ) * (cinema) the pictures

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
    • flick one's hair
    with a flick of the wrist
    to flick the dirt from boots
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    • Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
    (Thackeray)

    Derived terms

    * flick knife * flick off * flick the bean

    Related terms

    * flicker ----