Definitions of picture:

• noun:   a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

  Example: "They showed us the pictures of their wedding"

• noun:   a typical example of some state or quality

  Example: "The very picture of a modern general"

• noun:   illustrations used to decorate or explain a text

  Example: "The dictionary had many pictures"

• noun:   a situation treated as an observable object

  Example: "The political picture is favorable"

• noun:   graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

  Example: "His pictures hang in the Louvre"

• noun:   a clear and telling mental image

  Example: "He described his mental picture of his assailant"

• noun:   the visible part of a television transmission

  Example: "They could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"

• noun:   a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
• noun:   a graphic or vivid verbal description

  Example: "Too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"

• verb:   show in, or as in, a picture
• verb:   imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind