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# picture

«picture» in Mova's school dictionary: **a drawing, painting or photo** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (picture, pictures); verb (picture, pictures, pictured, picturing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A picture is a drawing, painting or photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#m1)

2) To picture something means to see it in your mind, to imagine it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#m2)

3) The picture can mean the general idea of a situation: get the picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#m3)

4) In old use, «the pictures» means the cinema. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#m4)

5) A picture can also be a lovely view or scene that you look at. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: pictures drawn, taken or hung are counted; a picture with width and height can ask for a frame's perimeter or the area; «draw a picture» is a way to solve a problem; a picture graph (pictogram) uses pictures for numbers. In art lessons: draw a picture, paint a picture. Phrases: take a picture, draw a picture, picture book, picture frame, the big picture, get the picture.

### examples

- Sara drew 5 pictures each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x1)
- The album holds 6 pictures on each page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x2)
- The picture is 30 cm wide and 20 cm tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x3)
- Draw a picture to solve the problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x4)
- Can you picture a city under the sea? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x5)
- We took pictures of the waterfall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x6)
- My little sister reads picture books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x7)
- Hang the picture straight on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x8)
- Look at the picture and describe what you see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#x9)

### note

Countable. Verb: «picture yourself», «pictured». Usually the thing counted. With width and height, the frame around it is a perimeter. «Draw a picture» is advice, not a quantity. Trap: a frame around the picture is bigger than the picture itself.

### In the corpora

- [A scan picture is made by a machine that uses sound waves to see the baby inside the body without hurting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/10/)
- [Picture a living room in Melbourne: Dad sits you down and says, "Grandad is dying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/3/)
- [Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/2/)
- [Parents may switch off the news to protect children from scary pictures, and they worry about it themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/10/)
- [Judging a whole group, like «the kids from the flats», from one picture is how prejudice starts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «picture» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.