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Pictures 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-b
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| 16. | to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future. |
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Bird Definition–noun | 1. | any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg. |
| 4. | Slang. a person, esp. one having some pecul
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| 5. | Informal. an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile. |
| 6. | Cookery. a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds. |
| 7. | Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite. |
| 8. | Chiefly British Slang. a girl or young woman. |
| 9. | Archaic. the young of any fowl. |
| 10. | the bird, Slang. | a. | disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage. |
| b. | scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird. |
| c. | an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger. |
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–verb (used without object) | 11. | to catch or shoot birds. |
—Idioms| 13. | a little bird, Informal. a secret source of information: A little bird told me that today is your birthday. <
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| 14. | bird in the hand, a thing possessed in fact as opposed to a thing about which one speculates: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Also, bird in hand. |
| 15. | birds of a feather, people with interests, opinions, or backgrounds in common: Birds of a feather flock together. |
| 16. | eat like a bird, to eat sparingly: She couldn't understand why she failed to lose weight when she was, as she said, eating like a bird. |
| 17. | for the birds, Slang. useless or worthless; not to be taken seriously: Their opinions on art are for the birds. That p
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ep rally is for the birds. | |
| 18. | kill two birds with one stone, to achieve two aims with a single effort: She killed two birds with one stone by shopping and visiting the museum on the same trip. |
| 19. | the birds and the bees, basic information about sex and reproduction: It was time to talk to the boy about the birds and the bees. |
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