Found 2 hits - Term: picture gallery, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
picture \pic"ture\, n. l. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to
paint: cf. f. peinture. see paint.
1. the art of painting; representation by painting. obs.
1913 webster
any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or
sculpture. --sir h.
wotton.
1913 webster
2. a representation of anything as a person, a landscape, a
building upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced
by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography,
etc.; a representation in colors. by extension, a figure;
a model.
1913 webster
pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
--bacon.
1913 webster
the young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.
--howell.
1913 webster
3. an image or resemblance; a representation, either to the
eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings
vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the
picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
1913 webster
my eyes make pictures when they are shut.
--coleridge.
1913 webster
note: picture is often used adjectively, or in forming
self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or
picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture
seller or picture-seller, etc.
1913 webster
animated picture, a moving picture.
picture gallery, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to
the exhibition of pictures.
picture red, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a
room, from which pictures are hung.
picture writing.
a the art of recording events, or of expressing
messages, by means of pictures representing the
actions or circumstances in question. --tylor.
b the record or message so represented; as, the picture
writing of the american indians.
1913 webster
syn: picture, painting.
usage: every kind of representation by drawing or painting is
a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors,
pencil, crayons, or india ink; strictly, a painting is
a picture made by means of colored paints, usually
applied moist with a brush.
1913 webster
see also:
paint animated picture picture gallery picture red picture writing picture
painting
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
picture gallery
n : a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
syn: gallery, art gallery
see also:
gallery art gallery
Results 1 - 10 of 26 found about picture gallery: Gallery
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Gallery, definition of term: Gallery
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Picture, definition of term: Picture
picture_pag1.html Picture Writing
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Picture Writing, definition of term: Picture Writing
picture+writing_pag1.html Picture Tube
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Picture Tube, definition of term: Picture Tube
picture+tube_pag1.html Picture Book
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Picture Book, definition of term: Picture Book
picture+book_pag1.html Rogues Gallery
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Rogues Gallery, definition of term: Rogues Gallery
rogues+gallery_pag1.html Motion Picture
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Motion Picture, definition of term: Motion Picture
motion+picture_pag1.html Peanut Gallery
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Peanut Gallery, definition of term: Peanut Gallery
peanut+gallery_pag1.html Dulwich Picture Gallery
...Dulwich Picture Gallery is currently showing two temporary exhibitions ... DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY is the greatest find in London: a magnificent ... ..
http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/, score=100, date indexed=December 29, 2005, 10:29 pm Dinosaur Picture Gallery
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