Noun

(en noun)

A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.

* Sir J. Reynolds

In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

(figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.

(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

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.

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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