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 →

2) To picture something means to see it in your mind, to imagine it. tree →

3) The picture can mean the general idea of a situation: get the picture. tree →

4) In old use, «the pictures» means the cinema. tree →

5) A picture can also be a lovely view or scene that you look at. tree →

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 →
• The album holds 6 pictures on each page. tree →
• The picture is 30 cm wide and 20 cm tall. tree →
• Draw a picture to solve the problem. tree →
• Can you picture a city under the sea? tree →
• We took pictures of the waterfall. tree →
• My little sister reads picture books. tree →
• Hang the picture straight on the wall. tree →
• Look at the picture and describe what you see. tree →

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.
• Picture a living room in Melbourne: Dad sits you down and says, "Grandad is dying.
• Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.
• Parents may switch off the news to protect children from scary pictures, and they worry about it themselves.
• Judging a whole group, like «the kids from the flats», from one picture is how prejudice starts.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «picture» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.