Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 61

Picoline (n.) (Chem.) Any one of three isometric bases ({C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

Picotee (n.) Alt. of Picotine.

Picotine (n.) (Bot.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.

Picquet (n.) See Piquet.

Piquet (n.) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also picket and picquet.]

Picra (n.) (Med.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

Picrate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of picric acid.

Picric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, A strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.

Note: Picric acid is obtained by treating phenol with strong nitric acid, as a brilliant yellow crystalline substance, C6H2(NO2)3.OH. It is used in dyeing silk and wool, and also in the manufacture of explosives, as it is very unstable when heated. Called also trinitrophenol, and formerly carbazotic acid.

Picrite (n.) (Min.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.

Picrolite (n.) (Min.) A fibrous variety of serpentine.

Picromel (n.) (Old Chem.) A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.

Note: It was formerly supposed to be the essential principle of the bile, but is now known to be a mixture, principally of salts of glycocholic and taurocholic acids.

Picrotoxin (n.) (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.

Picryl (n.) (Chem.) The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.

Pictish (a.) Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. "The Pictish peer." -- Byron.

Pictograph (n.) A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea. -- Pic`to*graph"ic, a.

Pictograph (n.) A graphic character used in picture writing.

Pictogram

Pictograph

(Or "pictograph") A symbol which is a picture that represents an object or concept, e.g. a picture of an envelope used to represent an e-mail message.

Pictograms are common in everyday life, e.g. signs in public places or roads, whereas the term "{icon" is specific to interfaces on computers or other electronic devices.

Pictograms are the most common kind of ideogram (symbols representing concepts), the other kind are not pictures but are conventions. (2014-07-30)

Pictorial (a.) Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. "Pictorial rhetoric." -- Ruskin. -- Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Pictoric

Pictorial (a.) Pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: pictorial, pictural].

Pictorial (a.) Evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid].

Pictorial (n.) A periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures.

Pictoric (a.) Alt. of Pictorical.

Pictorical (a.) Pictorial. [Obs.]

Picts (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.
Pictura (n.) (Zool.) Pattern of coloration.

Picturable (a.) Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.

Pictural (a.) Pictorial. [R.] -- Sir W. Scott.

Pictural (n.) A picture. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Pictural (a.) Pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: pictorial, pictural].

Picture (n.) The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]
Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Picture (n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. -- Bacon.
The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. -- Howell.
Picture (n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
My eyes make pictures when they are shut. -- Coleridge.
Note: Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc.
Animated picture, A moving picture.
Picture gallery, A gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures.
Picture red, A rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung.
Picture writing. (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. -- Tylor.
Picture writing. (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of the American Indians.
Syn: Picture, Painting.
Usage: Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush.
Pictured (imp. & p. p.) of Picture.
Picturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picture.
Picture (v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. "I . . . do picture it in my mind." -- Spenser.
I have not seen him so pictured. -- Shak.
Picture (n.) A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon].
Picture (n.) Graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre" [syn: painting, picture].
Picture (n.) A clear and telling mental image; "he described his mental picture of his assailant"; "he had no clear picture of himself or his world"; "the events left a permanent impression in his mind" [syn: mental picture, picture, impression].
Picture (n.) A situation treated as an observable object; "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century" [syn: picture, scene].
Picture (n.) Illustrations used to decorate or explain a text; "the dictionary had many pictures" [syn: picture, pictorial matter].
Picture (n.) A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick].
Picture (n.) The visible part of a television transmission; "they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone" [syn: video, picture].
Picture (n.) A graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation].
Picture (n.) A typical example of some state or quality; "the very picture of a modern general"; "she was the picture of despair."
Picture (n.) A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material [syn: photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic].
Picture (v.) Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image].
Picture (v.) Show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" [syn: picture, depict, render, show].
Image
Picture, ()
Data representing a two-dimensional scene. A digital image is composed of pixels arranged in a rectangular array with a certain height and width.  Each pixel may consist of one or more bits of information, representing the brightness of the image at that point and possibly including colour information encoded as RGB triples.
Images are usually taken from the real world via a digital camera, frame grabber, or scanner; or they may be generated by computer, e.g. by ray tracing software.
See also image formats, image processing.
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Image
Picture, ()
The image (or range) of a function is the set of values obtained by applying the function to all elements of its domain.  So, if f : D -> C then the set f(D) = \{ f(d) | d in D \ is the image of D under f.  The image is a subset of C, the codomain.
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Picture, (n.)  A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. "Behold great Daubert's picture here on view -- Taken from Life."  If that description's true, Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too. Jali Hane
Pictured (a.) Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
Pictured (a.) Seen in the mind as a mental image; "the glory of his envisioned future"; "the snow-covered Alps pictured in her imagination"; "the visualized scene lacked the ugly details of real life" [syn: envisioned, pictured, visualized, visualised].
Pictured (a.) Represented graphically by sketch or design or lines [syn: depicted, pictured, portrayed].
Picturer (n.) One who makes pictures; a painter. [R.] -- Fuller.
Picturesque (a.) Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. -- De Quincey. -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
Colorful (a.) Having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled].
Syn: colourful.
Colorful (a.) Striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque].
Colorful (a.) Having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
Picturesque (a.) Suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village."
Picturesque (a.) Strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the rainforest."
Picturesquish (a.) Somewhat picturesque. [R.]
Picturized (imp. & p. p.) of Picturize.
Picturizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picturize.
Picturize (v. t.) To picture.
Picturize (v. t.) To adorn with pictures.
Picul (n.) A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 1355/8 lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 1331/2 lbs.; in Japan, 1331/3 lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan. [Written also pecul, and pecal.]
Picul (n.) A unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry).
Piculet (n.) (Zool.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.
Piculet (n.) Small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers.
Pici (n. pl. ) of Picus.

Picus (n.) A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species.

Piddled (imp. & p. p.) of Piddle.

Piddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Piddle.

Piddle (v. i.) To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

Piddle (v. i.) To be squeamishly nice about one's food.

Piddle (v. i.) To urinate; -- child's word.

Piddler (n.) One who piddles.

Piddling (a.) Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.

Piddock (n.) Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.

Pie (n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.

Pie (n.) See Camp, n., 5.

Pie (n.) A magpie.

Pie (n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.

Pie (n.) The service book.

Pie (n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.

Pie (v. t.) See Pi.

Piebald (a.) Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.

Piebald (a.) Fig.: Mixed.

Piece (n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.

Piece (n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.

Piece (n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance

Piece (n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.

Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.

Piece (n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.

Piece (n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.

Piece (n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.

Piece (n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.

Piece (n.) A castle; a fortified building.

Pieced (imp. & p. p.) of Piece.

Piecing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Piece.

Piece (v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.

Piece (v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.

Piece (v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.

Pieceless (a.) Not made of pieces; whole; entire.

Piecely (adv.) In pieces; piecemeal.

Piecemeal (n.) A fragment; a scrap. -- R. Vaughan.

Piecemeal (adv.) 一件件地，逐個地；逐漸地；零碎地； 成碎片地 In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." -- Chapman.

The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. -- Tennyson.

Piecemeal (adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.

Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. -- Pope.

Piecemeal (a.) 一件件的，逐個的；逐漸的；零碎的 Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." -- Gov. of Tongue.

Piecemeal (adv.) A little bit at a time; "the research structure has developed piecemeal" [syn: piecemeal, little by little, bit by bit, in stages].

Piecemeal (a.) One thing at a time [syn: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step, stepwise].

Piecemealed (a.) Divided into pieces.

Piecener (n.) One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

Piecener (n.) Same as Piecer, 2.

Piecer (n.) One who pieces; a patcher.

Piecer (n.) A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

Piecework (n.) Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.

Pied () imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.

Pied (a.) Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.

Piedmont (a.) Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

Piedmontite (n.) A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.

Piedness (n.) The state of being pied.

Piedouche (n.) A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.

Piedstall (n.) See Pedestal.

Piemen (n. pl. ) of Pieman.

Pieman (n.) A man who makes or sells pies.

Piend (n.) See Peen.

Pieno (a.) Full; having all the instruments.

Pieplant (n.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

Piepoudre (n.) Alt. of Piepowder.

Piepowder (n.) An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge.

Pier (n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.

Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.

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