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Pictures vs Diagram - What's the difference?

pictures | diagram |

As nouns the difference between pictures and diagram

is that pictures is or pictures can be (dated|british) the cinema while diagram is a plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.

As verbs the difference between pictures and diagram

is that pictures is (picture) while diagram is to represent or indicate something using a diagram.

pictures

English

Noun

(head)
  • Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (dated, British) The cinema
  • We go to the pictures every Saturday night.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (picture)
  • Anagrams

    *

    diagram

    Alternative forms

    * diagramme (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= 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.}}
    Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
  • A graph or chart.
  • (category theory) A functor from an index category'' to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is ''J'' and the codomain is ''C'', then the diagram is said to be "of type ''J'' in ''C ".
  • Synonyms

    * (plan or similar to show relationships or similar) schematic

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * circuit diagram * Ishikawa diagram * logic diagram * (tree diagram) * Venn diagram

    Verb

  • To represent or indicate something using a diagram.