picture

/ˈpɪktʃə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈpɪktʃə/

picture

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

pic - ture -> picture

Myanmar meaning

(n) ပန်းချီကား (v) ပုံဖော်ကြည့်

Full entry

picture /'pÇktʃǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [C] (က) ပန်းချီကား။ hang a picture on the wall ❍ His picture of lions won a prize. ❍ The little girl drew a picture of her house and coloured it in. (ခ) ဓာတ်ပုံ။ They showed us their wedding pictures. ❍ She's taking a picture of the children. (ဂ) ရုပ်ပုံ။ Will you paint my picture? ❍ He's got his picture (ie a picture showing him) in the paper.
၂။ [C] ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား ဖန်သားပေါ်ရှိ ရုပ်ပုံ။ ရုပ်မြင်ပုံ။ dramatic satellite pictures of the war ❍ The picture is much clearer with the new aerial.
၃။ (က) [C] ရုပ်ရှင်ကား။ a low-budget picture ❍ Have you seen her latest picture? See also MOTION PICTURE (ခ) the pictures [pl] (dated Brit infml ) ရုပ်ရှင်။ We don't often go to the pictures.
၄။ [C usu sing ] (ပြောဆိုရေးဖွဲ့ထားသည့်) ပုံလွှာ၊ ပုံ။ Her book gives a good/colourful picture of everyday life in ancient Rome. ❍ The picture presented by the report was misleading. ❍ Her description helped the police to build up an accurate picture of what had happened. ❍ In his mind he formed a picture of where they would live. ❍ If you study the figures closely, a gloomy/disturbing/grim picture emerges.
၅။ the picture [sing] အခြေအနေ။ The overall picture is unchanged.
၆။ (usu a picture ) [sing] (infml ) မျက်စိပသာဒဖြစ်သော အရာ၊ ရှုခင်း။ ရှုချင့်စဖွယ် အလှပန်း။ The girls were/looked a picture in their pretty dresses.
v
၁။ (က) စိတ်ကူးကြည့်သည်။ ပုံဖော်ကြည့်သည်။ He tried to picture what it would be like to spend months entirely alone. ❍ She pictured him lying dead on the roadside. ❍ I can still picture the house I grew up in. (ခ) ~ sb/sth as sth မြင်အောင်ပြသည်။ ပုံဖော်သည်။ He is often pictured as an outsider.
၂။ (ပုံတွင်) မြင်ရသည်၊ မြင်နိုင် သည်၊ တွေ့ရသည်၊ တွေ့နိုင်သည်။ They were pictured against a background of flowers. ❍ The winner was Mark Davis, pictured above with the competition judges.
❏ be/look the picture of health, happiness, etc [IDM ] (infml ) ပကတိကျန်းမာပုံ၊ စိတ်ချမ်းသာပုံ (စသည်) ရသည်။
❏ get the picture [IDM ] (infml ) နားလည်တယ် မဟုတ်လား။ သဘောပေါက်တယ်နော်။ There we all were—each of us hoping that someone else would speak first. You get the picture?
❏ in the picture [IDM ] (infml ) အခြေအနေအားလုံး သိထားသည်။ Our plans are now well advanced so I need to put you in the picture. တို့အစီအစဉ်တွေ အတော် ခရီးရောက်နေပြီ။ မင်းသိထားရအောင် ပြောမယ်။
❏ picture-book n ရုပ်ပုံစာအုပ်။
❏ picture-gallery n ပန်းချီပြခန်း။
❏ picture postcard n (ပုံပါသော) ပို့စကတ်။
❏ picture rail n ပန်းချီကားများချိတ်ဆွဲရန် နံရံကပ် သစ်သားဖောင်းတန်း။
❏ picture window n အကန့်မကန့်ထားသော မှန်ပြင်ကျယ် ပြတင်းပေါက်။

More examples

I noticed a picture on the dining-room wall.
A children’s book with bright colourful pictures
[picture of] : She showed me a picture of the house where she was born.
A picture of a peaceful country scene
[draw/paint a picture] : She asked children to draw pictures of their family.
[take a picture] : I’ll stand over here, and you can take the picture.
Some viewers are suffering from poor picture quality on all channels.
I have such happy pictures in my mind of those times.
[a mental picture] : She had a mental picture of Samuel’s face.
[picture of] : My friends had a rather distorted picture of my life.
[paint a picture (of something)] : The report paints a rather gloomy picture of life in the inner cities.
It won the award for Best Picture.
The picture has changed a lot in the last couple of weeks.
The general picture was one of neglect and decline.

Synonyms

image, depiction, portrait, representation, photograph, photo, print, account, archetype, art, blueprint, canvas, cartoon, cher, cinema, conceive of, conjure up, copy, create, create in your mind, daydream, delineate, delineation, depict, describe, description, dishy, doodle, double, draft, draw, drawing, dream, dream of, dreamboat, duplicate, effigy, embodiment, engraving, entertainment film, envision, epitome, essence, evoke, fancy, fantasize, feature, figure, film, flick, give, goodlooking, icon, idea, illustrate, illustration, imagine, impression, interpret, likeness, limn, living example, lookalike, lovely, lovesome, mirror, model, mold, motion picture, movie, moving picture, outline, paint, painting, panorama, paragon, perfect example, personification, photoplay, picture show, piece, portray, portrayal, presentment, pretty, re-creation, render, replica, report, represent, ringer, see, see in the mind's eye, see in your mind's eye, show, similitude, simulacrum, sketch, spectacle, spitting image, statue, tableau, twin, visualize

Antonyms

conceal, original