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Picture

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Verb group 8

Realize 84% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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Realize 84% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Understand 84% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Understand 84% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Visualize 84% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Visualize 84% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Narrower term 51

Abstraction 76% connected

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.

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Blueprint 76% connected

See under Print.

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Chiaroscuro 76% connected

Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro

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Cyclorama 76% connected

A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic e…

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Daguerreotype 76% connected

An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or i…

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Daub 76% connected

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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Diorama 76% connected

A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combinati…

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Distemper 76% connected

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

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Documentary 76% connected

Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.

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Enlargement 76% connected

The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

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Epithet 76% connected

An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verda…

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Feature 76% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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Foil 76% connected

To tread under foot; to trample.

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Frame 76% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Glossy 76% connected

Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.

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Graphic 76% connected

Alt. of Graphical

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Holograph 76% connected

A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

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Icon 76% connected

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

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Iconography 76% connected

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the…

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Illumination 76% connected

The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.

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Inset 76% connected

To infix.

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Landscape 76% connected

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

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Likeness 76% connected

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

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Magnification 76% connected

The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

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Micrograph 76% connected

An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

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Miniature 76% connected

Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

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Monochrome 76% connected

A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.

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Mosaic 76% connected

A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

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Mural 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.

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Musical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical propo…

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Nude 76% connected

Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

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Panorama 76% connected

A complete view in every direction.

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Photomicrograph 76% connected

An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.

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Portrait 76% connected

The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.

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Portraiture 76% connected

A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.

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Portrayal 76% connected

The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.

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Print 76% connected

To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.

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Radiograph 76% connected

A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the…

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Reflection 76% connected

The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

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Reflexion 76% connected

See Reflection.

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Scan 76% connected

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

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Scene 76% connected

The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the st…

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Seascape 76% connected

A picture representing a scene at sea.

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Semblance 76% connected

Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

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Shot 76% connected

of Shoot

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Still 76% connected

Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.

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Tanka 76% connected

A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.

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Transparency 76% connected

The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

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Vignette 76% connected

A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.

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Waterscape 76% connected

A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape.

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Description 76% connected

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

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Envisage 76% connected

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

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Exemplification 76% connected

The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

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Ideate 76% connected

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

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Illustration 76% connected

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

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Image 76% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Imagine 76% connected

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

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Interpret 76% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Product 76% connected

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the product…

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Production 76% connected

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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Represent 76% connected

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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Representation 76% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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Situation 76% connected

Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

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Typification 76% connected

The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

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Illustrate 76% connected

To make clear, bright, or luminous.

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Map 76% connected

A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat…

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Delineation 74% connected

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face…

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Delineation 74% connected

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face…

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Depict 74% connected

Depicted.

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Depict 74% connected

Depicted.

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Describe 74% connected

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the he…

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Describe 74% connected

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the he…

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Portray 74% connected

To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.

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Portray 74% connected

To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.

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Component part 6

Caption 70% connected

A caviling; a sophism.

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Credit 70% connected

Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.

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Episode 70% connected

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digr…

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Scene 70% connected

The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the st…

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Sequence 70% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Shot 70% connected

of Shoot

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Synonym 22

Characterization 92% connected

The act or process of characterizing.

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Delineation 92% connected

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face…

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Depict 92% connected

Depicted.

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Depiction 92% connected

A painting or depicting; a representation.

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Exposure 92% connected

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…

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Fancy 92% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Figure 92% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Film 92% connected

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

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Flick 92% connected

To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.

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Icon 92% connected

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

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Image 92% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Impression 92% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Painting 92% connected

of Paint

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Photo 92% connected

A contraction of Photograph.

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Photograph 92% connected

A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

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Pic 92% connected

A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

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Project 92% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Render 92% connected

One who rends.

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Scene 92% connected

The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the st…

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See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Show 92% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Visualize 92% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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