<B>pictorial, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having something to do with pictures; expressed in pictures. <BR> <I>Ex. pictorial writing or symbols.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) making a picture for the mind; vivid. <BR> <I>Ex. pictorial phrases.</I> (SYN) graphic. <DD><B> 3. </B>illustrated by pictures. <BR> <I>Ex. a pictorial history, a pictorial magazine.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>of, belonging to, or produced by a painter; having to do with painting or drawing. <BR> <I>Ex. pictorial skill.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a magazine or part of a newspaper in which pictures are an important part. adv. <B>pictorially.</B> </DL>
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<B>pictorialism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the use of a pictorial style; art of a pictorialist. </DL>
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<B>pictorialist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who uses a pictorial style, especially a photographer whose purpose is artistic rather than commercial or documentary. </DL>
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<B>pictorialize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make pictorial; show or illustrate with pictures. <BR> <I>Ex. to pictorialize a series of events.</I> noun <B>pictorialization.</B> </DL>
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<B>Pictoris, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> genitive of <B>Pictor.</B> </DL>
<B>picture, </B>noun, verb, <B>-tured,</B> <B>-turing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a drawing, painting, portrait, or photograph, or a print of any of these. <BR> <I>Ex. This book contains a good picture of a tiger.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a scene. <BR> <I>Ex. The trees and brook make a lovely picture.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) something beautiful. <BR> <I>Ex. She was a picture in her new dress.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>an exact likeness; image. <BR> <I>Ex. He is the picture of his father.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>an example; embodiment. <BR> <I>Ex. She was the picture of happiness. Old Balthus van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberal-hearted farmer (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Figurative.) a mental image; visualized conception; idea. <BR> <I>Ex. to have a clear picture of the problem.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Figurative.) a vivid description or account. <BR> <I>Ex. Gibbon's picture of the latter days of ancient Rome.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a motion picture. <BR> <I>Ex. It is more often the director, not the star, who makes a picture great, or even good (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>a visible image of something formed by physical means, as by a lens. <BR> <I>Ex. a picture on a television screen.</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>a tableau, as in the theater. <DD><B> 11. </B>(Informal.) state of affairs; condition; situation. <BR> <I>Ex. The employment picture is much brighter than it was a year ago (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to draw or paint; make into a picture. <BR> <I>Ex. The artist pictured the saints.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to reflect, as a mirror does. <DD><B> 2. </B>to form a picture of in the mind; imagine. <BR> <I>Ex. It is hard to picture life a hundred years ago. He was older than she had pictured him.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to show by words; describe graphically and vividly. <BR> <I>Ex. The speaker pictured the suffering of the poor. I think this last sentence pictures him exactly (Madame D'Arblay).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>pictures,</B> (Informal.) <DD><B> a. </B>motion pictures; movies. </I> <I>Ex. During his very successful career in pictures he has appeared in some ... thrilling productions (Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a motion-picture theater. <BR> <I>Ex. Charlotte is coming to the Zoo with me this afternoon. Alone. And later on to the pictures (P. G. Wodehouse).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>put</B> (or <B>keep</B>) <B>in the picture,</B> </I>(Informal.) to keep informed. <BR> <I>Ex. Were the press able to see the film, ... they would be in a position to put the public in the picture (London Times).</I> adj. <B>picturable.</B> </DL>
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<B>picture book,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a book consisting largely or wholly of pictures, especially for children. <BR> <I>Ex. a colorful picture book of animals.</I> </DL>
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<B>picture hat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a woman's wide-brimmed hat, originally often black and trimmed with ostrich feathers. </DL>
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<B>picture molding,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a molded strip of wood high on a wall, as to hang pictures from by means of hooks which fit over one of the members of the molding. </DL>
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<B>Picturephone </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a videophone. </DL>
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<B>picture postcard,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a postcard with a picture on one side and space to write a message on the other. </DL>
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<B>picture rail</B> or <B>rod,</B> <B>=picture molding.</B></DL>
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<B>pictures, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>picture.</B> </DL>
<B>picturesque, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>quaint or interesting enough to be used as the subject of a picture. <BR> <I>Ex. a picturesque old mill. An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar (Mark Twain).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>making a picture for the mind; vivid. <BR> <I>Ex. picturesque language.</I> (SYN) graphic, pictorial. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>the picturesque,</B> something picturesque; the picturesque principle, element, or quality in art, nature, or language. <BR> <I>Ex. a study of the picturesque in literature, a love of the picturesque.</I> adv. <B>picturesquely.</B> noun <B>picturesqueness.</B> </DL>
<B>picture tube,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cathode-ray tube which reproduces a transmitted picture on the screen of a television set; kinescope. </DL>
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<B>picture window,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large window in a house or apartment, designed to frame a wide view of the outside. <BR> <I>Ex. Will that architectural pet the "picture" window succumb to the rising desire for personal privacy? (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>picture writing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the recording of events or expressing of ideas by pictures or drawings that literally or figuratively represent things and actions; pictography. <DD><B> 2. </B>the pictures so used. <BR> <I>Ex. All the various receipts and disbursements were set down in the picture writing of the country (William H. Prescott).</I> </DL>
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<B>picturize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to represent in a picture or pictures. <DD><B> 2. </B>to put (a novel, drama, or other written work or an event) into the form of a motion picture. noun <B>picturization.</B> </DL>
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<B>picul, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ul</B> or <B>-uls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of weight equal to 100 catties, or about 135 pounds, long used in commerce in various parts of southern and southeastern Asia. </DL>
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<B>piculet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of small, soft-tailed birds of tropical regions, related to and resembling the woodpeckers. </DL>
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<B>piddle, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-dled,</B> <B>-dling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to do anything in a trifling or ineffective way. (SYN) dabble. <DD><B> 2. </B>to pick at one's food. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) to urinate. noun <B>piddler.</B> </DL>
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<B>piddling, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> trifling; petty. <BR> <I>Ex. It's too piddling, she thought, to worry about curling your eyelashes (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>piddock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of bivalve mollusks with a long egg-shaped shell, that burrow, as into clay, wood, or soft rock. </DL>
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<B>pidgin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>pidgin English. <BR> <I>Ex. Hawaiian pidgin.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any language spoken with a reduced grammar and vocabulary as a trade or communications jargon. <BR> <I>Ex. a French pidgin. The men keep calling to the team in a sort of pidgin Eskimo language (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Chinese pidgin English.) business. Also, <B>pigeon.</B> </DL>
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<B>pidgin</B> or <B>Pidgin English,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of several forms of English, with simplified grammatical structure and often a mixed vocabulary, used in western Africa, Australia, Melanesia, and formerly in China, as a language of trade or communication between natives and foreigners. <BR> <I>Ex. A good deal of amusement, too, was to be had in the exchanges of pidgin English (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>pidginize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to form or develop into pidgin or any mixture of languages such as pidgin. <BR> <I>Ex. Pidginized varieties of French are found in North Africa and New Caledonia (Robert A. Hall, Jr.).</I> </DL>
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<B>pi-dog, </B>noun. <B>=pye-dog.</B></DL>
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<B>pie</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>fruit, meat, vegetables, or other ingredients enclosed in pastry and baked in a round, flat dish or pan. <BR> <I>Ex. apple pie, chicken pie.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a round layer cake with a filling, as of cream, custard, or jelly. <BR> <I>Ex. Boston cream pie.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S.) the sum total of income, costs, or other figure, with reference to the portions into which it may be divided, such as on a pie chart. <BR> <I>Ex. Transportation is that slice of the cost pie often overlooked by management when it wants to cut costs (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S. Slang.) something quite easy or desirable. <BR> <I>Ex. easy as pie.</I> adj. <B>pielike.</B> </DL>
<B>pie</B> (4), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a book of rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day, as used in England before the Reformation. Also, <B>pye.</B> </DL>
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<B>pie</B> (5), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bronze coin of India, equal to 1/12 of an anna. </DL>
