Noun

(en noun)

The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

* Milton

His eye discovers unaware / The goodly prospect of some foreign land.

A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.

* Evelyn

I went to Putney to take prospects in crayon.

A position affording a fine view; a lookout.

* 1667 , Milton, Paradise Lost

Him God beholding from his prospect high.

Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.

* Bible, Ezekiel xl. 44

Their prospect was toward the south.

The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.

* John Locke

a very ill prospect of a future state

* Tillotson

Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?

The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.

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* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 2, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

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A hope; a hopeful.

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(sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.

(music) The of an organ.

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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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