PICTURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does picturing mean? 

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

1. visual imagery

2. visual representation as by photography or painting

  Familiarity information: PICTURING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICTURING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visual imagery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

envisioning; picturing

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

imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery (the ability to form mental images of things or events)

Derivation:

picture (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Visual representation as by photography or painting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pictorial representation; picturing

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

representation (an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent)

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

delineation; depiction; portrayal (representation by drawing or painting etc)

imaging; tomography ((medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body)

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Derivation:

picture (show in, or as in, a picture)

 Context examples 

Martin contented himself by picturing his brother-in-law's surprise on Sunday morning when he opened his Examiner and saw the article on the treasure-hunters.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Traddles was very full of it; and said, that, picturing himself with such a home, and Sophy waiting and preparing for him, he could think of nothing wanting to complete his bliss.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was still listening in thought to her well-remembered tones—still picturing her pale and spiritual aspect, her wasted face and sublime gaze, as she lay on her placid deathbed, and whispered her longing to be restored to her divine Father's bosom—when a feeble voice murmured from the couch behind: Who is that?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)