0 present participle of picture --
1 to imagine something: --
formal He was pictured (= an artist had painted him) as a soldier in full uniform.
[ + question word ] Picture to yourself how terrible that day must have been.
[ + -ing verb ] Try to picture yourself lying on a beach in the hot sun.
Picture the scene - the crowds of people and animals, the noise, the dirt.
It is impossible to think of one without picturing the other.
Picturing in one's mind the first allotment, its occupants appear to have met many vicissitudes and difficulties.
There has been too much exaggeration in these discussions, too much picturing of hypothetical evils which have no real probability whatever.
The clause, as drafted, could preclude naming the school and picturing the children because some of them might be witnesses at the forthcoming trial.
I was picturing to myself what happens in these cases.
Landscape began as a device for 'picturing' the world and its spaces, and as such it is intrinsically a theatrical construct: it is the staging of a cultural fiction.
This article explores the intellectual implications of picturing in a discipline that has thought of itself as preeminently about the use of words and their linear logics.
Cartwright dismisses the notion of representation as 'picturing' and suggests that models 'resemble the situation they represent' (p. 262).