What's the difference between pictorial and picturesque?

Pictorial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This pictorial essay should assist the radiologist in recognizing esophageal abnormalities on chest films and in recognizing their place in the spectrum of chest film abnormalities.
  • (2) The data revealed that (a) adequate verbal instruction had a modest but significant effect on the subjects' blending performance (Experiment 1), and (b) training without pictorial prompts resulted in better blending of trained and untrained C-VC items than training with pictorial prompts (Experiment 2).
  • (3) The earlier N300 effects, which do not appear to occur when ERPs are evoked by semantically primed and unprimed words, could suggest that the semantic processing of pictorial stimuli involves neural systems different from those associated with the semantic processing of words.
  • (4) One tool prepares publication-quality pictorial representations of alignments, while another facilitates interactive browsing of pairwise alignment data.
  • (5) We described a patient with a dramatic deficit of both word comprehension and naming but with good preservation of visual pictorial semantics.
  • (6) To determine whether this is due to a decrease with age in the speed with which verbal stimuli are recoded into pictorial representations, the reaction time of 12 old (63-78) and 12 young (17-25) subjects for matching verbal description to geometric shapes was measured.
  • (7) It is suggested that there are seven distinct types of information that we derive from seen faces; these are labelled pictorial, structural, visually derived semantic, identity-specific semantic, name, expression and facial speech codes.
  • (8) Using a structured thematic apperception technique (the Tell-Me-A-Story [TEMAS] test) to measure attention to pictorial stimuli depicting characters, events, settings, and covert psychological conflicts, a study was conducted with 152 normal and 95 clinical Hispanic, Black, and White school-age children.
  • (9) Analysis indicated firstly a superiority of the left hemisphere for the naming of compound nouns in mixed print and pictorial representation.
  • (10) Three explanations of these results are considered: integration of the sentence with the picture, formation of a semantic representation in addition to the pictorial one, and elaboration of the pictorial representation initiated by the sentence.
  • (11) A November Picture Test consisting of 120 pictorial items was utilized as the dependent variable.
  • (12) When the children were required to follow a meaningless target or to solve pictorial tasks, the two age-matched groups could not be differentiated.
  • (13) In a multiple choice recognition task, left hemisphere-damaged patients with aphasia and left and right hemisphere-damaged patients without aphasia were shown complex random shapes together with either a pictorial cue (experiment I and II) or a dotted drawing of its outline on which more or less outstanding parts were specially marked (experiment I).
  • (14) The pictorial evidence of his double life, revealed online by a fellow conference speaker, will pile pressure on Shapps to explain his links to a network of websites which have been blocked by Google for breaching its rules on copyright infringement and encouraging customers to plagiarise content.
  • (15) Unilateral scores of two commissurotomy and three (one left and two right) hemispherectomy patients were obtained on standardized auditory language comprehension tests which use pointing responses to a pictorial array.
  • (16) This pictorial essay demonstrates various reconstructions of the cruciate and the collateral ligaments, as well as several abnormalities of these ligaments.
  • (17) Standard morphanalytic techniques were used to produce objective and accurate pictorial representations of the mean nasal deformities in three dimensions.
  • (18) A modified version of the guilty knowledge technique was employed, with compound pictorial and verbal stimuli (schematic faces and verbal descriptions of people) as the relevant items memorized by the subjects.
  • (19) Pictorial depictions of a 22- and a 17-year-old man, as also of a 15-year-old girl, who are polytoxicomane, and who were in the detachment phase, are demonstrated.
  • (20) Results of the in vitro examinations, when compared to the clinical tests, lead to the conclusion that both, gastric mucous and contrast medium additives, may exert considerable influence on the pictorial quality of the above defined criteria.

Picturesque


Definition:

  • (a.) Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
  • (2) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
  • (3) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
  • (4) About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire in the picturesque lakeside town.
  • (5) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
  • (6) In an unusual move seen as evidence of their good working relationship despite their differences on key issues, Merkel invited Cameron to bring his wife, Samantha, and their three children to stay at Schloss Meseberg, an elegant baroque manor set in picturesque grounds.
  • (7) I like their morals … but I suspect that he doesn’t have the fire in his belly [to win the election].” Standing to Clarke’s right on the porch of the picturesque Grand Hotel, consultant Greg Behling said: “What the press tells us is that he’s geared for the long haul.
  • (8) The small, picturesque village of Balcombe in west Sussex became synonymous with fracking – and the opposition to it – nearly two years ago when plans emerged to test local land for oil drilling.
  • (9) Here are the highlights for a tour on two wheels … Best cycle route Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sunset on the sea … the coastal cycling route is the island’s most picturesque.
  • (10) I like the exact word, and clarity of statement, and here and there a touch of good grammar for picturesqueness" – structure was always a problem for Twain.
  • (11) If you're wondering who on Earth would want to watch a programme where a naked woman screams in pain as she performs the miracle of life in a picturesque locale, the answer is – a lot of people.
  • (12) Photography in the 1970s was dominated by people who were interested in the decisive moment, or picturesque photography – Henri Cartier-Bresson or the work of US landscape photographer Minor White .
  • (13) It will be many years before it is picturesque again.
  • (14) There is even a picturesque worker standing at ease, quietly breast-feeding his shovel.
  • (15) "Those who pick the apples should be able to afford to buy them," she says, watching the rise in rural poverty: "The most picturesque market towns now have food banks."
  • (16) Appearance: Mountains, forests, fast-flowing rivers, picturesque castles, sleepy villages, horse carts, elderly peasants ploughing land with age-old implements, blacksmiths sloshed on the deadly local brew palinka plying their time-honoured trade.
  • (17) Instead we have lots of ideas and lots of picturesque interpretation.
  • (18) President Barack Obama used an unusually picturesque appearance at Everglades National Park on Wednesday to draw attention to an ugly problem that he said was threatening the well-being of people in south Florida and around the world: climate change.
  • (19) It sits on the northern edge of the Mendip Hills, in the famously picturesque Chew Valley.
  • (20) 611 SW Kingston Avenue, japanesegarden.org Jet boat down the Willamette river Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images With a skyline marked by offices and spiralling concrete roads, Portland is not a stereotypically picturesque place.