pictures
plural of “picture” — a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
An inflected form of picture · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,803 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,049 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface also: image, icon, ikon they showed us the pictures of their weddinga movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
- graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface also: painting a small painting by Picassohe bought the painting as an investment
- a clear and telling mental image also: mental picture, impression he described his mental picture of his assailanthe had no clear picture of himself or his world
- a situation treated as an observable object also: scene the political picture is favorablethe religious scene in England has changed in the last century
- illustrations used to decorate or explain a text also: pictorial matter the dictionary had many pictures
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement also: movie, film, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show they went to a movie every Saturday nightthe film was shot on location
pictures in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I quaked all over, like Honest Labor in the pictures.
The Motormaniacs · Lloyd Osbourne · Chapter 1
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There were pictures of ladies and gentlemen, and pictures of horses and dogs.
The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley · Chapter 1
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It was all covered with pretty blue tiles, with pictures of boats on them.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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As transcripts of Homer they are like pictures drawn from a lost point of view.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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But, in the way of pictures, M. Vincent Favoral appreciated only the blue vignettes of the Bank of France.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1