Picture vs Idea - 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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(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
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, title= (obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.
(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.
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An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
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A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an (l).
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, title= A vague or fanciful (l); a feeling or hunch; an impression.
(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.
As nouns the difference between picture and idea
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 idea is an abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.As a verb picture
is to represent in or with a picture.picture
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(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
(f)idea
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(wikipedia idea)Noun
Trouble at the lab, passage=The idea that the same experiments always get the same results, no matter who performs them, is one of the cornerstones of science’s claim to objective truth. If a systematic campaign of replication does not lead to the same results, then either the original research is flawed (as the replicators claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming contend). Either way, something is awry.}}
- The remembrance whereof (which yet I beare deepely imprinted in my minde) representing me her visage and Idea so lively and so naturally, doth in some sort reconcile me unto her.
- Ideas won't go to jail.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}