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# picture

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

«picture» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A picture is a drawing, painting or photo. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#m3)
4. In old use, «the pictures» means the cinema. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/#m5)

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

In the Sefer Yetzirah commentary it means a symbolic image, as when letters are said to be images of angels.

**Interpretation.** Kabbalists teach that the vowels and the letters of God's name stand for higher powers.

### Examples

- The vowel letters, however, the letters of the Tetra- grammaton, are images and pictures of superior angels. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/picture/#x1)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «picture» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picture/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«picture» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/picture.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «picture» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/picture/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«picture» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/picture.html) on Mova free.