| descriptive | | |
| adj. | 1. descriptive | serving to describe or inform or characterized by description.; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage" |
| adj. | 2. descriptive | describing the structure of a language.; "descriptive grammar" |
| ~ grammar | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). |
| picture | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. icon, ikon, image, picture | a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" |
| ~ bitmap, electronic image | an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels. |
| ~ chiaroscuro | a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color. |
| ~ collage, montage | a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image.; "he used his computer to make a collage of pictures superimposed on a map" |
| ~ transparency, foil | picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector. |
| ~ computer graphic, graphic | an image that is generated by a computer. |
| ~ iconography | the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject.; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot" |
| ~ inset | a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one. |
| ~ likeness, semblance | picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing. |
| ~ cyclorama, diorama, panorama | a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene. |
| ~ reflection, reflexion | the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material).; "he studied his reflection in the mirror" |
| ~ representation | a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something. |
| ~ cat scan, scan | an image produced by scanning.; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" |
| ~ echogram, sonogram | an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. painting, picture | graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface.; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre" |
| ~ abstraction | an abstract painting. |
| ~ cityscape | painting depicting a city or urban area. |
| ~ daub | an unskillful painting. |
| ~ distemper | a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder. |
| ~ finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers. |
| ~ graphic art | the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking. |
| ~ ikon, icon | a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church. |
| ~ landscape | painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery. |
| ~ miniature, illumination | painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts). |
| ~ monochrome | painting done in a range of tones of a single color. |
| ~ mural, wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface. |
| ~ nude, nude painting | a painting of a naked human figure. |
| ~ oil painting | a picture painted with oil paints. |
| ~ pentimento | the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age). |
| ~ sand painting | a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background. |
| ~ waterscape, seascape | a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape). |
| ~ semi-abstraction | a semiabstract painting. |
| ~ still life | a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers. |
| ~ tanka | a Tibetan religious painting on fabric. |
| ~ trompe l'oeil | a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality. |
| ~ watercolor, water-color, water-colour, watercolour | a painting produced with watercolors. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. impression, mental picture, picture | a clear and telling mental image.; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind" |
| ~ image, mental image | an iconic mental representation.; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate" |
| n. (state) | 4. picture, scene | a situation treated as an observable object.; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century" |
| ~ situation, state of affairs | the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time.; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation" |
| n. (communication) | 5. pictorial matter, picture | illustrations used to decorate or explain a text.; "the dictionary had many pictures" |
| ~ illustration | artwork that helps make something clear or attractive. |
| n. (communication) | 6. film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show | a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" |
| ~ product, production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" |
| ~ sequence, episode | film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie. |
| ~ credit | an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work.; "the credits were given at the end of the film" |
| ~ subtitle, caption | translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. |
| ~ credits | a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film). |
| ~ telefilm | a movie that is made to be shown on television. |
| ~ scene, shot | a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film. |
| ~ feature film, feature | the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater.; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'" |
| ~ final cut | the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer. |
| ~ home movie | a film made at home by an amateur photographer. |
| ~ collage film | a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage. |
| ~ coming attraction | a movie that is advertised to draw customers. |
| ~ shoot-'em-up | a movie featuring shooting and violence. |
| ~ short subject | a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature. |
| ~ docudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment | a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event. |
| ~ cinema verite | a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director. |
| ~ film noir | a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters.; "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s" |
| ~ skin flick | a pornographic movie. |
| ~ rough cut | the first print of a movie after preliminary editing. |
| ~ silent movie, silent picture, silents | a movie without a soundtrack. |
| ~ slow motion | a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate. |
| ~ talkie, talking picture | a movie with synchronized speech and singing. |
| ~ 3-d, 3d, three-d | a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance. |
| ~ show | a social event involving a public performance or entertainment.; "they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway" |
| ~ musical, musical comedy, musical theater | a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing. |
| ~ dub | provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language. |
| ~ synchronise, synchronize | make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action.; "synchronize this film" |
| ~ film, shoot, take | make a film or photograph of something.; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" |
| ~ videotape, tape | record on videotape. |
| ~ reshoot | shoot again.; "We had to reshoot that scene 24 times" |
| n. (communication) | 7. picture, video | the visible part of a television transmission.; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone" |
| ~ telecasting, television, tv, video | broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" |
| ~ visual communication | communication that relies on vision. |
| n. (communication) | 8. characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word picture, word-painting | a graphic or vivid verbal description.; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" |
| ~ description, verbal description | a statement that represents something in words. |
| ~ epithet | descriptive word or phrase. |
| ~ portrait, portraiture, portrayal | a word picture of a person's appearance and character. |
| n. (cognition) | 9. picture | a typical example of some state or quality.; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair" |
| ~ typification, exemplification | a representational or typifying form or model. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture | a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material. |
| ~ beefcake | a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire. |
| ~ black and white, monochrome | a black-and-white photograph or slide. |
| ~ blueprint | photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.. |
| ~ cheesecake | a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire. |
| ~ closeup | a photograph taken at close range. |
| ~ daguerreotype | a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor. |
| ~ blowup, enlargement, magnification | a photographic print that has been enlarged. |
| ~ frame | a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film. |
| ~ glossy | a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper. |
| ~ headshot | a photograph of a person's head. |
| ~ hologram, holograph | the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography. |
| ~ longshot | a photograph taken from a distance. |
| ~ microdot | photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security). |
| ~ arial mosaic, photomosaic, mosaic | arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture. |
| ~ mug shot, mugshot | a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records). |
| ~ photocopy | a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work. |
| ~ photographic print, print | a printed picture produced from a photographic negative. |
| ~ photomicrograph | a photograph taken with the help of a microscope. |
| ~ radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagram, skiagraph, radiogram | a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays). |
| ~ representation | a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something. |
| ~ snapshot, snap, shot | an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera.; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends" |
| ~ spectrogram, spectrograph | a photographic record of a spectrum. |
| ~ stereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture, stereo | two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together. |
| ~ still | a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes).; "he wanted some stills for a magazine ad" |
| ~ telephoto, telephotograph | a photograph made with a telephoto lens. |
| ~ telephotograph | a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance. |
| ~ time exposure | a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time. |
| ~ vignette | a photograph whose edges shade off gradually. |
| ~ wedding picture | photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding. |
| ~ scene, shot | a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film. |
| v. (creation) | 11. envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize | imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" |
| ~ realize, see, understand, realise | perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" |
| ~ visualise, visualize | form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract.; "Mathematicians often visualize" |
| ~ conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" |
| v. (creation) | 12. depict, picture, render, show | show in, or as in, a picture.; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" |
| ~ artistic creation, artistic production, art | the creation of beautiful or significant things.; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" |
| ~ interpret, represent | create an image or likeness of.; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" |
| ~ illustrate | depict with an illustration. |
| ~ map | depict as if on a map.; "sorrow was mapped on the mother's face" |
| portrait | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. portrait, portraiture, portrayal | a word picture of a person's appearance and character. |
| ~ characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, word picture, picture | a graphic or vivid verbal description.; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. portrait, portrayal | any likeness of a person, in any medium.; "the photographer made excellent portraits" |
| ~ half-length | a portrait showing the body from only the waist up. |
| ~ likeness, semblance | picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing. |
| ~ self-portrait | a portrait of yourself created by yourself. |
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