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  • 11picture — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 painting/drawing/photograph ADJECTIVE ▪ beautiful, lovely, pretty, striking, stunning, wonderful ▪ blurred, blurry …

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  • 12picture — 1 noun 1 IMAGE (C) a painting, drawing, or photograph: A picture of a waterfall hung on the wall. | Get the children to draw a picture of their dream house. | Gary got his picture in the papers. 2 SITUATION (singular) the general situation in a… …

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  • 13picture — n. & v. n. 1 a (often attrib.) a painting, drawing, photograph, etc., esp. as a work of art (picture frame). b a portrait, esp. a photograph, of a person (does not like to have her picture taken). c a beautiful object (her hat is a picture). 2 a… …

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  • 14picture — [pik′chər] n. [ME pycture < L pictura < pictus, pp. of pingere, to PAINT] 1. a) an image or likeness of an object, person, or scene produced on a flat surface, esp. by painting, drawing, or photography b) a printed reproduction of this 2.… …

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  • 15picture — I UK [ˈpɪktʃə(r)] / US [ˈpɪktʃər] noun Word forms picture : singular picture plural pictures *** Talking or writing about pictures: painting a picture that is made using paints drawing a picture that is made using a pen or pencils sketch a… …

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  • 16picture — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin pictura, from pictus, past participle of pingere to paint more at paint Date: 15th century 1. a design or representation made by various means (as painting, drawing, or photography) 2. a. a… …

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  • 17picture — Synonyms and related words: 3 D, CRT spot, Cinemascope, Cinerama, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, Technicolor, Telephoto, Vorstellung, Western, Wirephoto, abstract, abstraction, aerial photograph, ally, altarpiece,… …

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  • 18picture — pic•ture [[t]ˈpɪk tʃər[/t]] n. v. tured, tur•ing 1) a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, or photograph 2) any visible image, however produced 3) a mental image 4) cvb a graphic or vivid account or… …

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  • 19motion picture — motion picture, adj. 1. a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion picture projector) in such rapid succession as to… …

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  • 20Nathaniel Brassey Halhed — (25 May 1751 – 18 February 1830) was an English Orientalist and philologist. Halhed was born at Westminster. He was educated at Harrow, where he began his intimacy with Richard Brinsley Sheridan, which continued after he entered Christ Church,… …

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