<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.</li><li>any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water.</li><li>a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day.</li><li>a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version.</li><li>a tableau, as in theatrical representation.</li><li>a movie: He signed a three-picture deal to star in the new franchise.</li><li>pictures, Older Use. movies collectively, as an art; cinema: So, you want to be in pictures?</li><li>a person, thing, group, or scene regarded as resembling a work of pictorial art in beauty, fineness of appearance, etc.: She was a picture in her new blue dress.</li><li>the image or perfect likeness of someone else: He is the picture of his father.</li><li>a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition: the picture of health.</li><li>a situation or set of circumstances: the economic picture.</li><li>the image on a computer monitor, the viewing screen of a television set, or a motion-picture screen.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing.</li><li>to form a mental picture of; imagine: He couldn't picture himself doing such a thing.</li><li>to depict in words; describe graphically: He pictured Rome so vividly that you half-believed you were there.</li><li>to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future.</li></ul>