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Picture Definition–noun | 1. | a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet. |
| 2. | any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water. |
| 3. | a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day. |
| 4. | a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version. |
| 5. | a tableau, as in theatrical representation. |
| 7. | pictures, Informal: Older Use. movies. |
| 8. | a person, thing, group, or scene regarded as resembling a work of pictorial art in beauty, fineness of appearance, etc.: She was a picture in her new blue dress. |
| 9. | the image or perfect likeness of someone else: He is the picture of his father. |
| 10. | a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition: the picture of health. |
| 11. | a situation or set of circumstances: the economic picture. |
| 12. | the image on a computer monitor, the viewing screen of a television set, or a motion-picture screen. |
–verb (used with object) | 13. | to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing. |
| 14. | to form a mental picture of; imagine: He couldn't picture himself doing such a thing. |
| 15. | to depict in words; describe graphically: He pictured Rome so vividly that you half-believed you were there. |
| 16. | to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future. |
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Respiratory Definition–adjective | pertaining to or serving for respiration: respiratory disease. |
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System Definition–noun | 1. | an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system. |
| 2. | any assemblage or set of correlated members: a system of currency; a system of shorthand characters. |
| 3. | an ordered and comprehensive assemblage of facts, principles, doctrines, or the like in a particular field of knowledge or thought: a system of
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| 4. | a coordinated body of methods or a scheme or plan of procedure; organizational scheme: a system of government. |
| 5. | any formulated, regular, or special method or plan of procedure: a system of marking, numbering, or measuring; a winning system at bridge. |
| 6. | due method or orderly manner of arrangement or procedure: There is no system in his work. |
| 8. | Astronomy. | a. | a number of heavenly bodies associated and acting together according to certain natural laws: the solar system. |
| b. | a hypothesis or theory of the disposition and arrangements of the heavenly bodies by which their phenomena, motions, changes, etc., are explained: the Ptolemaic system; the Copernican system. |
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| 9. | Biology. | a. | an assemblage of organs or related tissues concerned with the same function: the nervous system; the digestive system. |
| b. | the entire human or animal body considered as a functioning unit: an ingredient toxic to the system. |
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| 10. | one's psychological makeup, esp. with reference to desires or preoccupations: to get something out of one's system. |
| 11. | a method or scheme of classification: the Linnean system of plants. |
| 12. | (sometimes initial capital letter ) the prevailing structure or organization of society, business, or politics or of society in general; establishment (usually prec. by the): to work within the system instead of trying to change it. | |
| 13. | Geology. a major division of rocks comprising sedimentary deposits and igneous masses formed during a single geologic period. |
| 14. | Physical Chemistry. a combination of two or more phases, as a binary system, each of which consists of one or more substances, that is attaining or is in equilibrium. |
| 15. | Computers. a working combination of hardware, software, and data communications devices. |
| 16. | Checkers. either of the two groups of 16 playing squares on four alternate columns. |
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