(n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.
(n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
(n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
(v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(2) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(4) Only in 17 of the 97 examinees all the examined parameters were found normal, in the rest deviations from the normal echographic picture were revealed.
(5) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(6) For this purpose a test consisting of 135 picture cards was devised.
(7) "But we develop a picture of someone from their previous engagements with us.
(8) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
(9) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
(10) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(11) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
(12) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
(13) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(14) Erythrocyte filterability, blood viscosity, changes in the blood picture, and three blood coagulation factors (antithrombin III, protein C, and fibrin monomers) were investigated.
(15) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
(16) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
(17) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(18) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
(19) The clinical picture was characterized by hallucinations and delirium.
(20) These findings indicate the cytogenetic correlation with clinical and morphological picture, which consequently implicates the diagnostic and prognostic significance of chromosomal aspects.
Retouch
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
(v. t.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.
(n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tarantino, Django Unchained's director, had already reined in the movie's gore for the Chinese market, retouching footage to tone down the colour and bloodshed.
(2) Clarke recently launched his Fix Your Pix service aimed at homeowners marketing their homes through online estate agents, who can email him their photographs to be professionally retouched for £10 per shot plus VAT, far cheaper than organising your own shoot.
(3) These drawbacks might be avoided by using transrectal extraperitoneal extemporaneously matured colostomy that simplifies the surgical technique and prevents both precocious complications (peritonitis, occlusions, parietal abscess, necessity of a second "retouch" surgery) and also tardy complications (stomal prolapse, parastomal eventration).
(4) Although many surgeons still perform the definitive terminal colostomy using the initial technique--pararectal incision, transperitoneal tract, secondarily retouched excess--this procedure complicates uselessly the surgical technique leading frequently to complications.
(5) Even more breathtaking was Hidalgo's official campaign poster released last week, showing a heavily retouched (Hidalgo's team denied this) portrait described by French PR veteran Jacques Séguéla as like "a L'Oréal advert for anti-wrinkle cream".
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(7) The second was of the same girl, but it had been retouched to eliminate the disfigurement.
(8) When we start working on the painting’s restoration, the priority is to strengthen its structure, not retouching the paint on the damaged area,” he said.
(9) In 2010 the family firm launched Traffic Paymaster – software that inflates a website's advertising revenue by copying and retouching other people's content, which Labour has called on police to investigate for possible fraud and copyright violations.
(10) As it was "members' varnishing day", when works can by tradition be varnished or retouched if necessary, Brill was in the gallery with two tins of black paint.
(11) Basic retouching is fine, misrepresentation isn't."
(12) A life lived via social media is a highly edited one: look at me, cropped, retouched, looking better than ever!
(13) They also paid Saatchi £5,287.50 a week to have a retoucher on call for two weeks running.
(14) It also examines his working process, via the inclusion of initial plaster models, and his attention to how his art circulated: Rodin commissioned photographers and retouchers to shoot his sculptures in just the right light.
(15) The results are discussed in terms of the visual masking theories and the hypothetical perceptual retouch mechanism.
(16) I don't crop them, I don't retouch, and the shots are never staged.
(17) Thereafter, many operations can be performed on the colposcopic images: reductions, enlargements, retouches, record, recall, analysis, etc.
(18) When you bid for a franchise you’re looking forward to think what are customers going to need, but this fund gives a way to do different things that we haven’t thought of that customers may suggest.” The remaining train exteriors will be retouched by August; addressing the ageing interiors will take longer, with refurbishment starting over two years from August.
(19) "I don't have any qualms about retouching photos to make them look more attractive, but I wouldn't use technology to reshape a room or hide cracks in the walls.
(20) The party also formed policy calling for cigarette-style health warnings by advertisers for the adult market which "tell the truth" about the use of digital retouching technology.