Picture vs Study - What's the difference?

Picture is a synonym of study.

As nouns the difference between picture and study

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 study is (label) a state of mental perplexity or worried thought.

As verbs the difference between picture and study

is that picture is to represent in or with a picture while study is (usually|academic) to revise materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.

picture

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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.

*: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.

*: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.

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Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies,

To depict.

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Noun

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study
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Verb
(en-verb)
(usually, academic) To revise materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.

Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.

I need to study my biology notes.

(academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.

I study medicine at the university.

To acquire knowledge on a subject.

Biologists study living things.

To look at minutely.

He studied the map in preparation for the hike.

To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.

* Jonathan Swift

I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable.

To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.

* Bible, 1 Thessalonians iv. 11

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you

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Noun
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(label) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.

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*:wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I my?te preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte

(label) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Just men they seemed, and all their study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.

Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.

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*1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

*:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study ; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

*1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

*:Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost
, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}
The act of studying; examination.

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Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.

*(William Law) (1686-1761)

*:The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study .

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:The proper study of mankind is man.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
(senseid)A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.

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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

*:his cheery little study

An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.

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(label) A piece for special practice; an .

Synonyms
* (private male room) cabinet, closet (archaic)
Coordinate terms
* (private male room) boudoir (female equivalent)
Hyponyms
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Derived terms
* brown study
Related terms
* student * studious
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