I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clear picture/idea (= a good understanding )
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Some work experience should give you a clear idea of what the job involves.
a comprehensive picture
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The police still do not have a comprehensive picture of what happened.
a picture dictionary (= containing a lot of pictures, especially for children or beginners in a language )
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The advantage of a picture dictionary is that you don't have lengthy definitions.
a picture/portrait gallery
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The picture gallery is full of treasures.
a wedding photograph/picture
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my mother’s old wedding photographs
an exclusive report/interview/picture (= appearing in only one newspaper or magazine )
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The newspaper featured exclusive pictures of the couple’s new baby.
build (up) a picture of sb/sth (= form a clear idea about someone or something )
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We’re trying to build up a picture of what happened.
compromising letter/photograph/picture etc
conjure up images/pictures/thoughts etc (of sth)
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Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads.
door/window/picture frame
mental picture/image (= a picture that you form in your mind )
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I tried to get a mental picture of him from her description.
motion picture
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the motion picture industry
moving picture
paint a grim/rosy/gloomy picture of sb/sth
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Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.
painted a rosy picture
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Letters to relatives in Europe painted a rosy picture of life in the United States.
paints a gloomy picture
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The report paints a gloomy picture of the economy.
picture book
picture card
picture messaging
picture postcard
picture quality ( also image quality )
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Does this type of TV set have a better picture quality?
picture rail
picture window
take a picture/photograph/photo
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Would you mind taking a photo of us together?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accurate
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The artist was determined to present an accurate picture .
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You can't get an accurate picture off television.
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To assess whether this is an accurate picture it is necessary to address the question as to whether crime itself is predominantly working-class.
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By doing so, he would more easily be able to form an accurate picture of his father as well.
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This reduces the workload and helps in the production of a more comprehensive and accurate picture .
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It hopes this will give it a more accurate picture of the actual casualty rate.
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By simply questioning informants it is difficult to get an accurate picture of where and when Creole is actually used at home.
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Rangers have been shot and no one has an accurate picture of what has happened to the wildlife there.
big
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On the wall there was a big picture of Sir Anthony at the piano.
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No one in the boats has the luxury of seeing the big picture , of viewing Fuji majestic in the distance.
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Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture .
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This is no longer a team involved in the big picture .
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It was part of their mystique: total command of the big picture combined with the ability to delegate technical details.
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Yet it was not until researchers extended the same effort to the oceans that the bigger tectonic picture fell into place.
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Tough it may be, but you have to rise above it and appreciate the bigger picture .
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But Stack is a big idea, big picture kind of guy.
clear
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By applying a set of pragmatic guidelines to software choice a clearer picture of the more attractive options emerges.
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The Guttmacher study does not paint a clear statistical picture .
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I personally doubt whether any clear evolutionary picture would emerge if we were to base ourselves simply on Formen.
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Attempts to gain a clearer picture of this boundary layer floundered for several decades.
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A team at University College, London, produced the first clear pictures of interiors, using microchips as the specimens.
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At last, a clear picture of music lovers and lovers.
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Governors will have a clearer picture of what actually takes place in school.
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I need you to paint me a clear picture of the changes you expect to see three months down the road.
complete
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Often, the media convey a fairly complete picture of the events in question.
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Those who want a more complete picture of Kelly must consult the hefty, liberally illustrated catalog.
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It helps management build a complete picture of various types of absence, and to identify potential abuses.
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Time spent building a complete picture of your ideal position will be well spent.
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Inventories, therefore, do not give a complete picture of a person's wealth.
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I gave him a more complete picture of my risk profile.
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But he talked so damn much, let slip a lot of details that added up to a fairly complete picture .
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Every month the Shell Gold Card provides a series of reports which give you a complete picture of your fleet's performance.
different
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Your brain gets two slightly different pictures of the pencil - one from each eye.
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Goodman presents quite a different picture .
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The number of passives produced in response to the different pictures varied considerably.
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However, if shown a new and different picture , they demonstrate renewed inter-est.
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Your brain uses the slightly different pictures from each eye to judge distance accurately.
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Powell's visit last month as secretary of state presented a vastly different picture .
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I want to defend a radically different picture , which takes a much broader historical perspective.
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Shift the frame ever so slightly, and you get a completely different picture .
gloomy
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No doubt that was too gloomy a picture .
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He brings a book of verse with a few gloomy pictures .
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It is not a particularly gloomy financial picture for you, just a rather unstable one.
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Malthus' gloomy picture of human life seems to many contemporary commentators much too atomistic and adversarial.
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All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture .
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There was one solitary corrective to this gloomy picture .
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Domestic economic factors further complicated this gloomy picture .
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They objected to being given an unnecessarily gloomy picture at first.
good
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Lee must win best foreign-language picture Oscar this spring-or indeed best picture.
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In this eccentric Oscar year, will the simple virtues prevail when it comes to the best picture category?
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It might have been a better picture .
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Babe G A best picture Oscar nominee.
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It was a good picture before it became a bad picture.
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This single episode gave me a very good picture of Harold Wilson's qualities and defects.
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And for once there is no lack of likely names for the final two best picture slots.
main
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Our main picture shows an Ancistrus described as a Chubby Bristlenose.
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The male is to the front. Main picture: The female takes a breather.
mental
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Disappointment followed, the lurid projector of mental pictures shut down and I was left feeling I ought to have known better.
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As they crossed Park Avenue, he had a mental picture of what an ideal pair they made.
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This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technical options are discussed.
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They learn to let words create a mental picture and to then make a replica of their vision.
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She had a mental picture of Samuel Roberts' fine, hard face.
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Somewhere between the event and the sentence is a mental picture .
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When she switched on the light her cosy mental picture was shattered by crude reality.
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They make a funny mental picture because she is so short and he is so tall, just for starters.
overall
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The overall world picture shows: The basic modes of transmission have not changed.
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Herodotos gives mainly an account of single ships' actions; he adds details, but gives no overall picture .
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The overall picture today, however, is of a decreasing number of musically-skilled people.
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Using distance, parsimony and maximum-likelihood methods the overall picture of eukaryote small-subunit rRNA phylogeny remains unchanged.
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What is the overall picture of the process of addictive disease?
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It is the overall picture that matters.
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The graph provides an overall picture of the data which makes spotting trend or correlation of data in your spreadsheet.
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The overall picture , however, is of a lack of systematic training in church music for ordinands.
pretty
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Individuals painted a pretty grim picture of the pressures within social security offices.
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Not a pretty picture , is it?
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All in all, it is a pretty unconvincing picture .
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This is not going to be a pretty picture .
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And the charter made a pretty picture .
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She wanted more than the two dimensions of pretty pictures , more than the garbled pidgin of kitchen natives.
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But the countryside is more than just a pretty picture .
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Bright blue hyperlinks. Pretty pictures .
vivid
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There are extraordinarily vivid and exuberant pictures which are countered by others which have an almost penitential mood to them.
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But from the log books of 100 years ago, there is a very vivid picture of school life in Bentley.
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Nice vivid pictures , despite working on old computers.
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He also describes vivid pictures with extreme detail and.
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Her imagination conjured up an erotically vivid picture and she knew a hectic flush had risen to her cheeks.
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Memories tumbled out, dancing past her closed eyes in a vivid string of pictures .
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But he had a vivid picture of her in his mind, lean and hungry in her scarlet bathing suit.
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Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.
whole
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So the whole picture comes together.
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However, although we can keep this association in mind, it does not give us the whole picture .
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He may additionally, by dream mechanisms and current computation, try to fashion in a whole technicolor picture of the scenery.
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Essentially, creativity, as Coleridge sees it, comes down to the ability to perceive the whole picture .
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We never really get the whole picture .
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But it is not the whole picture .
■ NOUN
book
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Bodiam is a picture book castle and a favourite with children of all ages.
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They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes, look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.
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Roald Dahl's last picture book tells how Billy rescued the tiny Minpins from the smoke belching Gruncher.
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A five-page picture book is needed to explain the steps required to release and lift the hood of army vehicles.
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Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her.
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One of the greatest historians for children is the author Jean Fritz who has written historical novels and picture books .
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Colouring books help their writing skills ... picture books help their reading skills ... counting books help them with their numbers.
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One-night picture books require parents to select and begin a new story every night.
frame
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She was appalled when he explained to her she would be required to pose in a picture frame .
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He regilded picture frames , glued back together broken cups and plates.
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Burst walls, the marks of picture frames , the shadow of a crucifix.
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It was empty apart from a round wooden table, a large golden picture frame on one wall and a cupboard.
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The tube is a flat glass panel like a thick picture frame .
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It will all look so much nicer than bits of tied drying holly tucked into picture frames .
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Each door had two handles on either side and on walls hung wooden and metal picture frames .
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In distinguishing between these two, Gombrich uses the picture frame as an example of design.
motion
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It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture .
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Those who invest with him get the motion picture -- meaning his ongoing judgment, including when to sell.
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What had to be done was that motion pictures had to be made respectable.
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As per above, but for motion pictures .
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On a motion picture I have a team of anywhere from one hundred to two hundred people.
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Creativity is required, then, for the banker as well as the motion picture director.
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The revolution began with the invention of motion picture film early in the twentieth century.
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She became adept at filming with a motion picture camera as well as still camera.
postcard
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Anyone who can help with old picture postcards or other memorabilia can contact Chris on Darlington.
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She had not even sent me a picture postcard .
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Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards .
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It was too perfect; a picture postcard blown up to the scale of real life.
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A few picture postcards casually sent could not be considered remembering in any serious sense.
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It's a picture postcard brought to life.
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For Katherine the landscape bore none of the familiarity of a picture postcard .
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They could have been painted from picture postcards and probably were.
window
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Now, at the Mirage, Ali stands and walks stiffly towards the picture windows overlooking Las Vegas.
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Some one looking through the picture window spotted Lois before she got more than half way up the front walk.
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The picture windows shattered, and the bar cracked apart where the bullets went in.
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Although it is July, the house has a Christmas wreath hung in its picture window .
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Next door, where Ed Preston lived, somebody is watching me from the picture window .
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All staterooms are outside with large picture windows and private bathroom facilities.
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He was standing in the dark, in front of a picture window , fireworks exploding silently behind him.
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He fixed the bedroom and picture windows , glazing the edges of the glass with care.
■ VERB
build
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How do you build up the picture in a regression session?
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In Vera Cruz, a mob gathered in front of the government building and demanded a picture of Santa Anna.
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These shapes are built into moving pictures which are inspired by those drawn by Blake to illustrate stories from the Bible.
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Time spent building a complete picture of your ideal position will be well spent.
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It helps management build a complete picture of various types of absence, and to identify potential abuses.
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Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton.
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By using overlays, one can build up a picture stage by stage.
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You might argue that such an investigation, though time-consuming, would enable you to build up the picture you want.
draw
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Repeated commissions and zemstvo investigations drew a grim picture of peasant destitution and growing frustration.
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You might encourage them by drawing a picture of a playground slide.
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I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm.
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How does it look now? Draw a picture of what you actually see.
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To help you complete this plan, try to draw a picture that you will associate with your goal.
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As the students are drawing , walk around to be sure that they are drawing an exact picture of the hanging hammer.
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Yet all of the children could draw a picture of themselves and their shadow.
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He drew some pictures for me, holding the marker awkwardly.
emerge
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A similar picture emerges in relation to the distribution of gross earnings among female manual workers.
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A similar tax preparation picture emerges at the California state level.
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I personally doubt whether any clear evolutionary picture would emerge if we were to base ourselves simply on Formen.
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It may be some time before a clear picture of economic activity emerges , analysts said.
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Despite the limitations of the available data, the picture which emerges from this review is complex and interesting.
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A contrasting picture emerged from Gen.
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At the regional scale a much more varied picture of bus services emerges .
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A similar picture emerges in the case of women except that women's earnings at all levels are only two-thirds of men's.
give
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The absolute size of population gains and losses gives a slightly different picture of regional change.
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A longer view can give us a clearer picture .
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Herodotos gives mainly an account of single ships' actions; he adds details, but gives no overall picture .
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It gives a dynamic picture of science rather than the static account of the most naive falsificationists.
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To give a full picture of this past is a daunting task, not within the scope of this book.
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They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground.
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However, although we can keep this association in mind, it does not give us the whole picture .
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First, you must decide on the sort of atmosphere that you wish to give your picture .
look
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She looked a picture of health as she was cuddled by her relieved mum Michelle and dad David.
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Find a page with a picture . Look at the picture.
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But yesterday, she looked a picture of gloom.
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Application With your students, read the paragraph and look at the labeled picture on the application sheet.
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There was, however, nothing phony about his powers of connoisseurship, and looking at pictures with him was fascinating.
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Application With the class, look at some pictures of different animals.
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He was looking closely at the picture in his hand.
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Rufus had not looked at the picture for years.
paint
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Mr Howard painted a picture of industrial unrest under Labour rivalling the worst days of the 1970s.
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In recent weeks and months, the headlines have painted a picture of an industry in crisis.
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The final story began when Jane painted a picture .
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Their thinking may include negative self-talk that paints a picture of current and future failure.
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All of this seems to have painted a rather gloomy picture .
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Do all these dealings paint a picture of a couple who have maintained sole and separate property, as they have maintained?
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I do not understand how the Government can paint the picture that they have.
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You need to compose your career the way you would write a piece of music or paint a picture .
present
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The most up-to-date figures present a less black picture than was thought to be the case at the time.
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Goodman presents quite a different picture .
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The artist was determined to present an accurate picture .
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To present such a picture of a typical abusive marriage is misleading.
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Other counties present a similar picture .
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Powell's visit last month as secretary of state presented a vastly different picture .
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But in order to keep the argument as clear as possible we presented a fairly static picture of the class structure.
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Alternatively, the students could draw pictures rather than write stories and present their pictures to the class.
produce
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These electrical pulses are then analysed and used to produce detailed pictures of a patient's internal organs.
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But the magazine hit back by producing a picture of Mrs Barantes with one of their journalists.
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Two photographers have produced pictures of Simpson wearing the shoes at a November 1993 Buffalo Bills football game.
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Heat detection produces pictures at night.
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Indeed, that is certainly true, but we must bear in mind the way that the computer actually produces these pictures .
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Another use is to produce pictures of an unborn baby by reflecting ultrasonic waves off its body.
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Class based analyses which exclude them therefore produce a misleading picture of inequalities in child health.
provide
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Environmental forecasting Scanning and monitoring provide a picture of what has already taken place and what is happening.
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The spate of incidents may provide a clearer picture of changes that might be needed in those regulations.
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The graph provides an overall picture of the data which makes spotting trend or correlation of data in your spreadsheet.
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Today, the other fast-food chains provide the pictures too.
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This is operating normally, providing pictures with the usual 80 m resolution.
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They have a wide view to help them look out for the hunters. Provide the students with pictures of animals.
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This provides a very clear picture of the total activity although the order of doing things may not be obvious.
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Now, videotape provides instant pictures , which solves the problem of processing delays.
see
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These styles can be seen in the pictures of mod rallies at seaside towns.
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On the Cover they saw the picture of a Negro author, and they commented on that.
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There were two easels in the room and on one she saw an unfinished picture .
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Strangely, I have never seen pictures of smiling persons with shopping carts standing over piles of steak.
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Hindelang reviewed a series of such studies to see how different a picture they gave from arrest or court data.
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I saw a picture of that boat last week.
show
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A tree is shown in the Niobid picture , trees and small plants in the vase illustrated in figs. 109 and 116.
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Make contact. Show them pictures of your hometown.
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This miracle shows a picture of the Church.
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He did not attempt to show those pictures to the jury.
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I showed them a picture of a sheep and they didn't believe that it existed.
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For instance, why is showing an unflattering picture of Bob Dole in a television commercial such a terrible crime?
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Journalists were shown reassuring pictures aimed at proving how technology helps control natural phenomena.
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The flowers alone had cost five thousand, and the paper showed pictures of father and daughter.
take
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Younis told me that they'd taken my picture because I'd hidden it.
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My father is taking a picture of us on this very important day.
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She took her pictures down from the wall.
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Now I understand, as I back away, claiming to need a better angle from which to take a picture .
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But when the paparazzi responded by taking pictures of Buckingham Palace-based Mr Arbiter, he angrily demanded their names.
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What do they take from these pictures ?
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Setting up the picture Briefing To take really good pictures photographers need to be properly briefed.
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He took some still pictures of them with his Leica, and they immediately formed groups, asking him to take more.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cloud the issue/picture etc
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These comments should not be allowed to cloud the picture too much.
library pictures/footage
pretty as a picture
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Francesca was as pretty as a picture and apparently glowing with health.
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Property: Not quite as pretty as a picture A house committed to canvas is a house that's easy to sell.
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Rachel looked as pretty as a picture, her lovely body warmly covered by a grey riding cloak lined with miniver fur.
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She looked surprised, and threw up her hands, pretty as a picture, then began to set the chessmen afresh.
the larger issues/question/problem/picture
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But the larger picture is systematically distorted by the military and political calculations concerning the strategic uses of information and disinformation.
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Here we are concerned with the larger problem of the relationship between men as a class and other animals as a class.
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It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.
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Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.
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She was blind to the larger picture that involves building and maintaining good relationships with both fellow-workers and superiors.
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That ignorance is at the root of geophysicists' struggle with the larger problem of how the whole earth works.
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Too much, and the larger picture might become apparent.
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You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting.
the wider context/issues/picture etc
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As ever, context is important, particularly the wider context of New Testament teaching.
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Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture.
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It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.
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More broadly, it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence.
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That fact must be put in the wider context.
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The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
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We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work.
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What interpretations of the wider issues should it consider?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pictures of her family covered the coffee table.
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an early picture by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet
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By the 1930s, Garbo was reportedly earning $250,000 a picture .
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Daisy did a lovely picture of a cat at school today.
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I didn't know the word in Japanese so I drew a little picture .
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I still have a vivid picture in my head of my first day in Paris.
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Leo's picture is in the paper today.
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The picture 's all fuzzy.
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The house belonged to the Duke of Wellington, and his picture hangs in the hall.
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There was a picture of a windmill on the bedroom wall.
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To get a better picture of how the company is doing, look at sales.
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Van Gogh's "Sunflowers' is one of the most famous pictures in the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all this rigmarole, they were to write a story to fit the words and pictures they had chosen.
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An alarming picture encapsulated a false belief.
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Lee must win best foreign-language picture Oscar this spring-or indeed best picture.
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My picture of Saja was correct only in the fact that he was a glutton.
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The media are merely the messengers, sometimes further sensationalizing and then passing along the false picture that has been painted.
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They posed for pictures with him in the tunnel outside the clubhouse.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
above
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A liver version of their personalised pennant is pictured above .
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She's pictured above , relaxing in a simple but effective room with beams and bare brickwork.
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Mrs Scott, pictured above , first took the plunge in 1993 when she converted a house into two flats.
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The young boy pictured above is 13 years old and works a minimum of 12 hours a day.
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They are pictured above with Albert Lee.
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Some of the principal speakers who took part in the Council's 21st International Forum are pictured above .
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Jasper Carrott and Phil pictured above are the comedians in question.
here
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They're pictured here in their brand new packs.
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A mild whitefish fillet can be substituted for the tuna pictured here .
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The Manzi brothers, pictured here , are unafraid of clothes that suggest they need ironing.
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Lady fern, pictured here , has an elegant appearance with graceful fronds up to three feet in length.
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You can add a touch of floral style to your correspondence with the attractive Lady Margaret stationery pictured here .
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Mr Beechey, pictured here a few days after the body of his neighbour was discovered, said nothing during the hearing.
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Robert's grandfather, Thomas, created the marvellous cake pictured here to celebrate George V's coronation in 1911.
right
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Her eyes lit up as she spotted Spartacus hunk Kirk-at 83 just a year her junior and pictured right .
■ NOUN
man
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I pictured a man taking leave of his motor; wobbling from the fast lane towards the hard shoulder.
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He kept picturing an old man with a hoe, how the poor guy went skidding through the powdery red dust.
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She pictured the man stamping down through his pub, irate and duty-bound.
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For a moment he pictured the man in his civilian life.
mind
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If a story was written skillfully enough to include vivid descriptions, Louisa pictured them in her mind .
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He pictured them in his mind , and recoiled from the thought.
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Nutty, picturing in her mind the agility required of the cross-country performer, ground her teeth with frustration.
scene
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He could picture the scene as if it were yesterday.
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I can picture the romantic scene now.
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She smiled involuntarily as she pictured the scene .
woman
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He'd pictured her as a woman willing to trade physical favours in exchange for her goals.
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We, on the other hand, picture a serenely content woman with a baby in her arms.
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They pictured Soviet women as hammer-throwers, brawny six-footers who work in brick factories.
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They picture women gathered together to dance or perform some apparently ritualistic act of worship.
■ VERB
try
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When I wake up, at almost half past eight, I try to picture Agnes.
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She tried to picture Benedict thus, but the image would not form.
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Close your eyes and try to picture them.
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She bowed her head in pain as she tried to picture the face of her husband.
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I try to picture the basilica and the beautiful little medieval town of Assisi, tucked into the side of Mount Subasio.
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She must not try to picture Ruth in that house.
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I tried picturing Detroit, Michigan.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
library pictures/footage
pretty as a picture
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Francesca was as pretty as a picture and apparently glowing with health.
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Property: Not quite as pretty as a picture A house committed to canvas is a house that's easy to sell.
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Rachel looked as pretty as a picture, her lovely body warmly covered by a grey riding cloak lined with miniver fur.
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She looked surprised, and threw up her hands, pretty as a picture, then began to set the chessmen afresh.
the larger issues/question/problem/picture
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But the larger picture is systematically distorted by the military and political calculations concerning the strategic uses of information and disinformation.
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Here we are concerned with the larger problem of the relationship between men as a class and other animals as a class.
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It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.
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Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.
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She was blind to the larger picture that involves building and maintaining good relationships with both fellow-workers and superiors.
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That ignorance is at the root of geophysicists' struggle with the larger problem of how the whole earth works.
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Too much, and the larger picture might become apparent.
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You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting.
the wider context/issues/picture etc
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As ever, context is important, particularly the wider context of New Testament teaching.
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Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture.
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It is now necessary to situate these in the wider context of the social formation and in particular class structure.
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More broadly, it was placed in the wider context of the continuing ambitions of central government to control local independence.
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That fact must be put in the wider context.
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The change depended upon changes in the wider context of controversy, which provoked the development of formerly implicit attitudinal aspects.
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We would expect leaders at all levels to be aware of the wider context of their work.
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What interpretations of the wider issues should it consider?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Can you picture it? Lying in the sun, sipping cocktails -- it would be paradise!
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I can still picture her lovely brown eyes.
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I had never met Graham but I pictured him as a pale, thin young man wearing glasses.
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Miguel could still picture the children laughing and joking, and chasing each other around the garden.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both pictured a glamorous brunette, at least a dozen years older than herself.
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He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow.
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I pictured her trying to eke out her money - for I was sure there was not much.
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I pictured myself picking at least three hundred pounds a day and took the job.
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It is frighteningly easy to picture our children bald-gummed, big-headed as the babies they sprang out of.
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They have been pictured as the ultimate wealth of the community.
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When a child learns to picture and verbalize his feelings, he has the opportunity to reason and make intelligent choices.
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Whichever, it seems that Arsenio isn't quite the sort of cultural diplomat I had optimistically pictured.