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picture
shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like:
• a picture of a horse • He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died.
drawing
a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc:
• We had to do a drawing of a sunflower.
sketch
a picture that is drawn quickly:
• I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted.
painting
a picture made using paint:
• The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art. • Picasso did several paintings of her.
portrait
a picture of a person:
• The portrait was painted by Rembrandt.
landscape
a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains:
• Constable painted mainly landscapes.
cartoon
a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke:
• A cartoon in the New York Times showed the President talking to Osama Bin Laden.
comic strip
a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story:
• Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
caricature
a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way:
• He is famous for his caricatures of politicans.
illustration
a picture in a book:
• The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour.
poster
a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration:
• old movie posters • There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall.
print
a picture that is usually produced on a printing press , and is one of a series of copies of the same picture:
• a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon
image
a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you:
• He produced some memorable images. • a beautiful image • Some of the images are deeply disturbing.
artwork
pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine:
• We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers.
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noun 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.ART 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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary