picture
US: /ˈpɪktʃɝ/
UK: /pˈɪktʃɐ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
picture /'piktʃə/- danh từ
- bức tranh, bức ảnh, bức vẽ
- chân dung
- to sit for one's picture: ngồi để cho vẽ chân dung
- người giống hệt (một người khác)
- she is the picture of her mother: cô ta trông giống hệt bà mẹ
- hình ảnh hạnh phúc tương lai
- hiện thân, điển hình
- to be the [very] picture of health: là hiện thân của sự khoẻ mạnh
- vật đẹp, cảnh đẹp, người đẹp
- her dress is a picture: bộ áo của cô ta nom đẹp
- ((thường) số nhiều) phim xi nê
- (nghĩa bóng) cảnh ngộ; sự việc
- out of (not in) the picture: không hợp cảnh, không hợp thời, không phải lối
- to put (keep) somebody in the picture: cho ai biết sự việc, cho ai biết diễn biến của sự việc
- to come into the picture: biết sự việc, nắm được sự việc
- ngoại động từ
- về (người, vật)
- mô tả một cách sinh động
- hình dung tưởng tượng
- to picture something to oneself: hình dung một việc gì, tưởng tượng một việc gì
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
painting / drawing
1 [C] a painting or drawing, etc. that shows a scene, a person or a thing: A picture of flowers hung on the wall. + The children were drawing pictures of their pets. + She wanted a famous artist to paint her picture (= a picture of herself). + a book with lots of pictures in it
photograph
2 [C] a photograph: We had our picture taken in front of the hotel. + The picture shows the couple together on their yacht. + Have you got any pictures of your trip?
on tv
3 [C] an image on a television screen: harrowing television pictures of the famine + satellite pictures + The picture isn't very clear tonight.
description
4 [C, usually sing.] a description that gives you an idea in your mind of what sth is like: The writer paints a gloomy picture of the economy. + The police are trying to build up a picture of what happened. + From newspaper reports a picture emerges of a country barely under control. + The TV report painted a much rosier picture of the employment situation than research shows to be the case.
mental image
5 [C, usually sing.] a mental image or memory of sth: I have a vivid picture of my grandfather smiling down at me when I was very small.
general situation
6 (the picture) [sing.] the general situation concerning sb/sth: Just a few years ago the picture was very different. + The overall picture for farming is encouraging.
movies
7 [C] a film/movie: The movie won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. + (especially AmE) I believe her husband's in pictures (= he acts in movies or works in the industry).
See also -
8 (the pictures) [pl.] (old-fashioned, informal) the cinema/the movies: Shall we go to the pictures tonight?
Idioms: be / look a picture to look very beautiful or special: The garden looks a picture in the summer.
be the picture of health / guilt / misery, etc. (informal) to look extremely healthy, guilty, etc.
get the picture (spoken) to understand a situation, especially one that sb is describing to you: 'I pretended that I hadn't heard.' 'I get the picture.'
in / out of the picture (informal) involved/not involved in a situation: Morris is likely to win, with Jones out of the picture now.
put / keep sb in the picture (informal) to give sb the information they need in order to understand a situation: Just to put you in the picture-there have been a number of changes here recently.
more at BIG adj., PAINT v., PRETTY adj.
+ verb
imagine
1 ~ sb (as sth) to imagine sb/sth; to create an image of sb/sth in your mind: [VN] I can still picture the house I grew up in. + We found it hard to picture him as the father of teenage sons. + [VN -ing] When he did not come home she pictured him lying dead on the roadside somewhere. + [V wh-] I tried to picture what it would be like to live alone.
describe
2 [VN] [often passive] ~ sb/sth as sth to describe or present sb/sth in a particular way
Synonym: PORTRAY
Before the trial Liz had been pictured as a frail woman dominated by her husband.
show in photograph
3 [usually passive] to show sb/sth in a photograph or picture: [VN] She is pictured here with her parents. + [VN -ing] The team is pictured setting off on their European tour. [also VN-ADJ]
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 drawing, painting, representation, portrait, depiction, artwork, illustration, sketch, photograph:
Here is a picture of our cottage in the Cotswolds.
2 image, (perfect or exact) likeness, (carbon) copy, double, duplicate, twin, (exact) replica, look-alike, facsimile, Colloq spitting image or spit and image, Slang (dead) ringer:
Isn't she just the picture of her mother?
3 impression, idea, notion, understanding, image:
I think I have a pretty good picture of the situation.
4 model, prototype, epitome, essence, embodiment, incarnation, personification, perfect example:
From her autobiography, you might believe her to be the picture of sweet innocence
5 put (someone) in or into the picture. inform or advise fully, Colloq fill (someone) in:
Put me into the picture about what went on here last night.
v.
6 envision, envisage, visualize, imagine, fancy, conceive of, see in the mind's eye:
Picture yourself lying on a beach in the Bahamas.
7 depict, draw, portray, paint, represent, show, illustrate, display:
In this fresco, Salome is pictured dancing before Herod Antipas.
Collocation
1 painting/drawing/photograph
ADJ.
attractive, beautiful, lovely, striking, stunning, wonderful | blurred | black and white, colour | posed
VERB + PICTURE
draw, paint | colour in
The book has simple stories and pictures to colour in.
| frame, hang, mount | display, exhibit, show | pose for, sit for | get, snap, take
I got some good pictures of the procession.
| touch up
PICTURE + VERB
depict sth, show sth | hang
PICTURE + NOUN
frame | book, postcard | gallery | hook, rail | editor
PREP.
in a/the ~
I can't see you in the picture. The story is told in pictures.
| ~ of
It's a picture of a country village.
More information about ART WORKS
ART WORKS:
of art a piece/work of art
Michelangelo's Pietà is a magnificent work of art.
collect ~
She collects Jacobean portraits.
display, exhibit, show ~
The works will be displayed in the new wing of the museum.
~ be (put) on display/exhibition/show ~ go on display/exhibition/show
paintings put on show for the first time The photographs are on exhibition until the end of September.
house ~
An annexe was built to house the sculptures.
a series of ~
a series of paintings by Van Gogh
a collection/exhibition of ~
an exhibition of early 20th century French masterpieces
an art/photographic/photography exhibition
The open art exhibition will allow new artists to exhibit their work.
by ~
a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth
2 mental image
ADJ.
vivid
The book gives a vivid picture of life in Victorian England.
| clear | complete, comprehensive, full, general, overall, total, whole
The programme was interesting but it didn't give the full picture.
| incomplete | broad
My visits enabled me to build up a broad picture of the culture.
| composite
Through interviews and old photos we put together a composite picture of life in the village a hundred years ago.
| accurate, balanced, realistic, representative, true | false, misleading, one-sided, over-simplified, unbalanced | idealized, optimistic, rosy | bleak, depressing, dismal, gloomy, grim, negative
The report paints a dismal picture of the government's economic record.
| confused, distorted | detailed | complex, complicated | disturbing | mental
I tried to form a mental picture of the building being described.
| historical
VERB + PICTURE
build (up), construct, create, develop, establish, form, gain, get, obtain, put together
They're trying to build up a detailed picture of the incident.
| give, paint, present, project, reveal
The figures reveal a disturbing picture of the state of our schools.
| complete | conjure up
The smell of the sea conjures up pictures of children playing on the beach.
PICTURE + VERB
emerge
What emerges is a complex picture of family rivalry.
Concise dictionary
pictures|pictured|picturing'pɪktʃə(r)noun
+a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
+graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
+a clear and telling mental image
+a situation treated as an observable object
+illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
+a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
+the visible part of a television transmission
+a graphic or vivid verbal description
+a typical example of some state or quality
verb
+imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
+show in, or as in, a picture
