picture
noun
a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc..
pictures
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pluralof picture.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof picture (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
picturenouna visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc..
Example Sentences
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During the experiments, participants viewed pictures of faces and everyday objects while EEG equipment recorded their brain activity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
Cary Beth Cryor has five pictures of herself giving birth; “Marty,” a young black boy wearing oversize sunglasses, flexes a muscle in Gioncarlo Valentine’s 2023 color picture of him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
With an up-to-date picture, facial recognition technology uncovered numerous other pictures of Patel posing at glamorous events in Dubai.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
“Many organizations came into the camps. They just came around and took some pictures and then they leave,” said Annour, a slight man with a serious countenance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
I reached out and touched it, and the paper slid away under my fingers, the paper and the bits of colored pictures.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
