Picturing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Picture \Pic"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pictured}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Picturing}.]
     To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to
     represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring
     before the mind. "I . . . do picture it in my mind."
     --Spenser.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           I have not seen him so pictured.         --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  picturing
       n 1: visual imagery [syn: {envisioning}]
       2: visual representation as by photography or painting [syn: {pictorial
          representation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "picturing":
     Vorstellung, concept, conception, conceptualization, eidetic image,
     envisaging, envisioning, image, imagery, imagery study, imaging,
     imagism, imagistic poetry, lifelike image, mental image,
     mental picture, mental representation, objectification, picture,
     poetic imagery, vision, visual image, visualization,
     word-painting