{
    "term": "picture",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/di/diningroom.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a painting or drawing, etc. that shows a scene, a person or thing",
            "sensetop": "picture of somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He likes books with lots of pictures in them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A picture of flowers hung on the wall.",
                    "contextForm": "picture of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children were **drawing pictures** of their pets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wanted a famous artist to **paint her picture** *(= a picture of herself)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a picture of a country village."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a picture of the Grand Canyon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book has simple stories and pictures to colour in."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The story is told in pictures."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["beautiful", "lovely", "pretty"],
                "verb + picture": ["draw", "paint", "compose"],
                "picture + verb": ["depict something", "show something", "hang"],
                "picture + noun": ["frame", "book", "postcard"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the picture", "picture of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a photograph",
            "sensetop": "picture of somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **take a picture**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We **had our picture taken** in front of the hotel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The picture shows the couple together on their yacht."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **posted a picture** of the two of them on her Facebook page.",
                    "contextForm": "picture of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Have you got any pictures of your trip?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The star **shared the picture** on Instagram."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to upload/send/tweet a picture"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't see you in the picture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I got some good pictures of the procession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This picture shows the man with his family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His picture appeared in the local paper."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["beautiful", "lovely", "pretty"],
                "verb + picture": ["draw", "paint", "compose"],
                "picture + verb": ["depict something", "show something", "hang"],
                "picture + noun": ["frame", "book", "postcard"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the picture", "picture of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an image on a television screen",
            "sensetop": "picture (of somebody/something)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "harrowing television pictures of the famine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You are looking at **live pictures** of midtown Manhattan."
                },
                {
                    "text": "poor picture quality"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["compelling", "dramatic", "vivid"],
                "verb + picture": ["build", "build up", "construct"],
                "picture + verb": ["emerge"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a description that gives you an idea in your mind of what something is like",
            "sensetop": "picture of something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We've only got scraps of information, not the **full picture**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The writer **paints a** gloomy **picture** of the economy.",
                    "contextForm": "picture of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bleak/grim picture of the future"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a clear/an accurate/a complete picture of these events"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police are trying to build up a picture of what happened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "From news reports a **picture emerges **of a country in crisis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The TV report painted a much rosier picture of the employment situation than research shows to be the case."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book gives a vivid picture of life in Victorian England."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Through interviews and old photos we put together a composite picture of life in the village a hundred years ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They're trying to build up a detailed picture of the incident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What emerges is a complex picture of family rivalry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "From newspaper reports a picture emerges of a country barely under control."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a composite picture of life a hundred years ago"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My visits enabled me to build up a broad picture of the culture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The figures reveal a disturbing picture of the state of our schools."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["compelling", "dramatic", "vivid"],
                "verb + picture": ["build", "build up", "construct"],
                "picture + verb": ["emerge"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a mental image or memory of something",
            "sensetop": "picture (of somebody/something)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I have a vivid picture of my grandfather smiling down at me when I was very small."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He uses imagery to form mental pictures within the mind of the reader."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had formed a picture of what the place would look like and was very disappointed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a sudden and chilling mental picture of him being interrogated in one of their prisons."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The smell of the sea conjures up pictures of my youth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I tried to form a mental picture of the building being described."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["compelling", "dramatic", "vivid"],
                "verb + picture": ["build", "build up", "construct"],
                "picture + verb": ["emerge"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "the general situation relating to somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Just a few years ago the picture was very different."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The overall picture for farming is encouraging."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The documentary was interesting but it didn't give the **full picture**."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "a film",
            "sensetop": "in pictures",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The movie won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I believe her husband's in pictures *(= he acts in movies or works in the movie industry)*.",
                    "contextForm": "in pictures"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["moving", "live", "satellite"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "the cinema",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Shall we go to the pictures tonight?"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["moving", "live", "satellite"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very pretty",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She’s as pretty as a picture."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to look very beautiful or special",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The garden looks a picture in the summer."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to look extremely healthy, guilty, unhappy, etc.",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the situation as a whole",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Right now forget the details and take a look at the big picture."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to understand a situation, especially one that somebody is describing to you",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘I pretended that I hadn't heard.’ ‘I get the picture.’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "involved/not involved in a situation",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Morris is likely to win, with Jones out of the picture now."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to describe somebody/something in a particular way; to give a particular impression of somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The report paints a vivid picture of life in the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Journalists paint a grim picture of conditions in the camps."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He didn't paint a very pretty picture of city life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The report paints a dismal picture of the government's economic record."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to give somebody the information they need in order to understand a situation",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Just to put you in the picture—there have been a number of changes here recently."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɪktʃə(r)/",
                "audio": "pi/picture/picture__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɪktʃər/",
                "audio": "pi/picture/picture__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin pictura, from pict- ‘painted’ (from the verb pingere)."
}