0 past simple and past 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.
None of their developmental curves are pictured here, because there is nothing to see, except a virtually zero-rate flat line over the months.
The idea is simply to construct an automaton like that pictured above for a specified behaviour.
But he forgets that almost all these landscapes are pictured after a code that was produced by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
