0 present participle of picture
1 to imagine something:
Picture the scene - the crowds of people and animals, the noise, the dirt.
[ + -ing verb ] Try to picture yourself lying on a beach in the hot sun.
[ + question word ] Picture to yourself how terrible that day must have been.
formal He was pictured (= an artist had painted him) as a soldier in full uniform.
If you could try to picture how difficult life was in those days, you'll understand more.
I'd pictured him as much older.
Either way, both sides engage in deliberate reification and both gain by picturing the economy as largely abstracted from experience.
They are present and the dialogue between volume and void, shape as full and shape as empty, is crucial to the play of picturing.
Until about mid-century, picturing a man recumbent was a way to make him effeminate, a juxtaposition strikingly revealed in a political cartoon from roughly 1838.
