PIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pic mean? 

• PIC (noun)
  The noun PIC has 2 senses:

1. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

2. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

  Familiarity information: PIC used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show

Context example:

the film was shot on location

Hypernyms ("pic" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

show (a social event involving a public performance or entertainment)

Meronyms (parts of "pic"):

credits (a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film))

episode; sequence (film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie)

credit (an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work)

caption; subtitle (translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen)

scene; shot (a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film)

Domain member category:

dub (provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language)

synchronise; synchronize (make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action)

film; shoot; take (make a film or photograph of something)

tape; videotape (record on videotape)

reshoot (shoot again)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pic"):

musical; musical comedy; musical theater (a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing)

3-D; 3D; three-D (a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance)

talkie; talking picture (a movie with synchronized speech and singing)

slow motion (a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate)

silent movie; silent picture; silents (a movie without a soundtrack)

rough cut (the first print of a movie after preliminary editing)

skin flick (a pornographic movie)

film noir (a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters)

cinema verite (a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director)

docudrama; documentary; documentary film; infotainment (a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event)

short subject (a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature)

shoot-'em-up (a movie featuring shooting and violence)

coming attraction (a movie that is advertised to draw customers)

collage film (a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage)

home movie (a film made at home by an amateur photographer)

final cut (the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer)

feature; feature film (the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater)

telefilm (a movie that is made to be shown on television)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture

Hypernyms ("pic" is a kind of...):

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pic"):

black and white; monochrome (a black-and-white photograph or slide)

scene; shot (a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film)

wedding picture (photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding)

vignette (a photograph whose edges shade off gradually)

time exposure (a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time)

telephotograph (a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance)

telephoto; telephotograph (a photograph made with a telephoto lens)

still (a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes))

stereo; stereoscopic photograph; stereoscopic picture (two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together)

spectrogram; spectrograph (a photographic record of a spectrum)

shot; snap; snapshot (an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera)

radiogram; radiograph; shadowgraph; skiagram; skiagraph (a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays))

photomicrograph (a photograph taken with the help of a microscope)

photographic print; print (a printed picture produced from a photographic negative)

stock image; stock photograph (an exisitng photograph licensed for a specific use)

mug shot; mugshot (a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records))

photocopy (a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work)

beefcake (a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire)

blueprint (photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.)

cheesecake (a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire)

closeup (a photograph taken at close range)

daguerreotype (a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor)

blowup; enlargement; magnification (a photographic print that has been enlarged)

frame (a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film)

glossy (a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper)

headshot (a photograph of a person's head)

hologram; holograph (the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography)

longshot (a photograph taken from a distance)

microdot (photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security))

arial mosaic; mosaic; photomosaic (arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture)

 Context examples 

The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)