(~s, picturing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ consists of lines and shapes which are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface and show a person, thing, or scene.
A ~ of Rory O’Moore hangs in the dining room at Kildangan.
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2.
A ~ is a photograph.
The tourists have nothing to do but take ~s of each other...
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3.
Television ~s are the scenes which you see on a television screen.
...heartrending television ~s of human suffering.
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4.
To be ~d somewhere, for example in a newspaper or magazine, means to appear in a photograph or ~.
The golfer is ~d on many of the front pages, kissing his trophy as he holds it aloft.
...a woman who claimed she had been ~d dancing with a celebrity in Stringfellows nightclub...
The rattan and wrought-iron chair ~d here costs ?125.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, be V-ed -ing, V-ed
5.
You can refer to a film as a ~.
...a director of epic action ~s.
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6.
If you go to the ~s, you go to a cinema to see a film. (BRIT; in AM, use the movies )
We’re going to the ~s tonight...
= cinema
N-PLURAL: the N
7.
If you have a ~ of something in your mind, you have a clear idea or memory of it in your mind as if you were actually seeing it.
We are just trying to get our ~ of the whole afternoon straight...
= image
N-COUNT: oft N of n
8.
If you ~ something in your mind, you think of it and have such a clear memory or idea of it that you seem to be able to see it.
He ~d her with long black braided hair...
He ~d Claire sitting out in the car, waiting for him...
I tried to ~ the place, but could not.
= imagine
VERB: V n prep, V n -ing, V n
9.
A ~ of something is a description of it or an indication of what it is like.
I’ll try and give you a better ~ of what the boys do...
N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp
10.
When you refer to the ~ in a particular place, you are referring to the situation there.
It’s a similar ~ across the border in Ethiopia.
= situation
N-SING: oft the N
11.
If you get the ~, you understand the situation, especially one which someone is describing to you.
Luke never tells you the whole story, but you always get the ~.
= get the idea
PHRASE: V inflects
12.
If you say that someone is in the ~, you mean that they are involved in the situation that you are talking about. If you say that they are out of the ~, you mean that they are not involved in the situation.
Meyerson is back in the ~ after disappearing in July...
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v
13.
You use ~ to describe what someone looks like. For example, if you say that someone is a ~ of health or the ~ of misery, you mean that they look extremely healthy or extremely miserable.
We found her standing on a chair, the ~ of terror, screaming hysterically.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
14.
If you put someone in the ~, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about.
Has Inspector Fayard put you in the ~?
PHRASE: V inflects