Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: picturing
IPA transcription: [p'ɪktʃɚɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: picturing, envisioning
    Meaning: visual imagery
  • Synonyms: pictorial_representation, picturing
    Meaning: visual representation as by photography or painting
Usage examples
  • "I want nothing, nothing but this happiness," he thought, staring at the bone button of the bell in the space between the windows, and picturing to himself Anna just as he had seen her last time.
  • He pictured himself as she must be picturing him: a noble, struggling young spirit persecuted by misfortune, but bravely and patiently waiting in the shadow of a dread calamity and preparing to meet the blow as became one who was all too used to hard fortune and the pitiless buffetings of fate.
  • One of these, from a machine which happened to be set in telescopic focus, shows several views of great value in picturing the falls of the other ships, and all of the rear projectoscope records enable the reconstruction in detail of the pendulum and torsional movements of the ship, and its sag toward the earth.