Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Picture \Pic"ture\, n.

   {Animated picture}, a moving picture. Pierre-perdu
\Pierre`-per`du"\, n. [F. pierre perdue lost stone.]
   Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to
   make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.

Picture \Pic"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pictured}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Picturing}.]
   To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to
   represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring
   before the mind. ``I . . . do picture it in my mind.''
   --Spenser.

         I have not seen him so pictured.         --Shak.

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.]

            Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or
            sculpture.                            --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.

   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.

            Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
                                                  --Bacon.

            The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.
                                                  --Howell.

   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.

            My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
                                                  --Coleridge.

   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.

   {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.

   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.

Source : WordNet®

picture
     n 1: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or
          abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the
          pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of
          images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates
          them" [syn: {image}, {icon}, {ikon}]
     2: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by
        applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by
        Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his
        pictures hang in the Louvre" [syn: {painting}]
     3: a clear and telling mental image; "he described his mental
        picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of
        himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent
        impression in his mind" [syn: {mental picture}, {impression}]
     4: a situation treated as an observable object; "the political
        picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has
        changed in the last century" [syn: {scene}]
     5: illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the
        dictionary had many pictures" [syn: {pictorial matter}]
     6: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of
        images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they
        went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot
        on location" [syn: {movie}, {film}, {moving picture}, {moving-picture
        show}, {motion picture}, {motion-picture show}, {picture
        show}, {pic}, {flick}]
     7: the visible part of a television transmission; "they could
        still receive the sound but the picture was gone" [syn: {video}]
     8: a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the
        narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the
        author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the
        pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous
        Vermonters" [syn: {word picture}, {word-painting}, {delineation},
         {depiction}, {characterization}, {characterisation}]
     9: a typical example of some state or quality; "the very
        picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of
        despair"

picture
     v 1: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on
          horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a
          risk in this strategy" [syn: {visualize}, {visualise}, {envision},
           {project}, {fancy}, {see}, {figure}, {image}]
     2: show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country
        life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much
        tenderness in this painting" [syn: {depict}, {render}, {show}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

picture
     
        {image}