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Definitions: Pictorial |
PictorialAdjective1. Pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records". 2. Evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description". 3. Illustrated with pictures; "a pictorial history". Noun1. A periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pictorial" was first used: 1646. (references) |
Etymology: Pictorial \Pic*to"ri*al\, adjective. [Latin expression pictorius, from pictor painter, from pingere to paint. See Paint.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PictorialSynonyms: graphic (adj), lifelike (adj), pictural (adj), vivid (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Artistic, artistical; aesthetic; picturesque, pictorial; fait a peindre; well-composed, well grouped, well varied; curious. |
Painting | Adjective: painted; Verb: pictorial, graphic, picturesque. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pictorial |
| English words defined with "pictorial": abstract art, abstractionism, arras ♦ computer graphics ♦ Facture, Fashion plate ♦ hieroglyphic, hieroglyphical, hypertext ♦ pictorial matter, pictorial representation, pictorially, Pictorical, posed ♦ tapestry ♦ unposed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pictorial": ADM, AQL, art preparator ♦ facsimile telegraphy, FINE ARTS PACKER, form perception ♦ GADS, graphics display ♦ HISTORIAN, DRAMATIC ARTS ♦ IDAMS, IDMS, IQ, isotype method ♦ MECHANICAL PRINT, MODEL, ARTISTS' ♦ pel array, pictogram, pictorial diagram, pictorial display, pictorial element, Pictorial Janus, pictorial symbol, pictorial symbolization, picture diagram, planometric projection ♦ QPE ♦ structure diagram ♦ telecopier, topological diagram of a network. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pictorial": Picturesque. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pathé Pictorial No. 131: Tod Slaughter (1938) Pictorial Tidbits (1928) | |
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 | A sounding record from the U. S. S. TUSCARORA. In: "150 years of service on the seas : a pictorial history of the U. S. Naval Oceanographic Office", by Marc Pinsel, 1982. Library Call Number GC29.2.U5 P5.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Pictorial representation of the Himmelsbach hypothesis as it applies to alcohol use.Credit: NIAA. |
 | Line engraving published in "Gleason's Pictorial", 9 July 1853, showing the ship at anchor off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, where she was the receiving ship. This view is represents most of the right half of a longer original engraving entitled "View of the United States Navy Yard at Gosport, opposite Norfolk, Virginia.".Credit: NAVY. |  | Original pictorial rou8gh and ready melodies, no. 3. Old Zack TAylor is the man!.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Pictorial spirit of the Illustrated European Press.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pictorial Research, Bureau of Public Relations, War Department, Munitions Building] / Signal Corps p.Credit: Library of Congress; photo by BPR, Charles Ray.. |
 | Blackfeet Indian pictorial writing, Glacier National Park.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A pictorial story of the great Tokyo raid of April 18, 1942.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Thousands watch Army triumph over Navy, 6-0, in charity game for aid of unemployed. New York City--an excellent pictorial shot made through the stands showing the Army cadets marching onto the field before the game.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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John Ruskin | No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. |
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Trade | Singapore | Pictorial illustrations must not mislead about the true nature or origin of the food. (references) |
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| "Pictorial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.76% of the time. "Pictorial" is used about 236 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.76% | 226 | 20,021 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.39% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 236 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pictorial": pictorial art ♦ pictorial characters ♦ pictorial diagram ♦ pictorial display ♦ pictorial element ♦ pictorial Janus ♦ pictorial matter ♦ pictorial nature ♦ pictorial representation ♦ pictorial symbol ♦ pictorial symbolization ♦ Pictorial Works [Publication Type]. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pictorial": extra-pictorial, news-pictorial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pictorial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pikture, piktoresk (colorful, colourful, graphic, graphical, picturesque, scenic, scenical), revistë e ilustruar, me figura (figurative), i ilustruar (illustrated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مصور (cameraman, depicted, drawn, photographer), مؤلف من صور, حي (active, alive, animate, animated, block, district, existent, graphic, graphical, lifelike, live, lively, living, neighborhood, neighbourhood, nod, part, picturesque, quarter, reanimate, recall, regenerate, section, vivid, ward), تصويري (graphic, graphical, photographic, picturesque, programmatic, scenic, scenical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | с картини, в картини, образен (figurative, picturesque, tropical), живописен (graphic, old world, picturesque, scenic), пиктографски, изобразителен (figurative, graphic, graphical, iconic, representational, representative), илюстровано списание, илюстрован. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 畫報 , 摄影 (cinematography, Photographic, Photographical, Photography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výtvarný (plastic), obrázkový èasopis, obrázkový (illustrated), malířský, ilustrovaný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ugemagasin Europe Pictorial (weekly newsreel Europe Pictorial), topografisk indikator (pictorial display), mosaikgrafik (block graphics, mosaic graphics, pictorial characters), mærke i billedsprog (figurative mark, pictorial mark representation), grafisk praesentation (pictorial presentation), figurligt mærke (figurative mark, pictorial mark representation), billedrepræsentation (pictorial symbolization), billedlig fremstilling af mærke (figurative mark, pictorial mark representation), billedlig fremstilling af eurosedler og euromønter (pictorial presentations of euro notes and coins), billedelement (pictorial element, picture element, scanned element), billeddiagram (pictorial diagram), ABC-billedbog (pictorial alphabet book). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prentkaart (illustrated postcard, pictorial postcard), prentbriefkaart (picture postcard), grafisch-elementpresentatie (pictorial presentation), aanzichttekening (pictorial symbol), afbeelding van munten en bankbiljetten in euro (pictorial presentations of euro notes and coins), beeldmerk (emblem, figurative mark, logo, pictorial mark representation), contourtekening (pictorial symbol), geïllustreerd A.B.C.-boek (pictorial alphabet book), aanzichtsschema (pictorial diagram), grafische tekens (block graphics, mosaic graphics, pictorial characters), wekelijks filmjournal Europe Picturial (weekly newsreel Europe Pictorial), koersafwijkingsaanwijzer (pictorial deviation indicator), matrixteken (block graphics, mosaic graphics, pictorial characters), mozaïek-teken (block graphics, mosaic graphics, pictorial characters), topografische aanwijzer (pictorial display), grafisch element (display element, graphic primitive, output primitive, pictorial element). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مصور, مجسم سازنده , تصویری (Figurative), تصویرنما. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kuvalehti (illustrated magazine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pictural, illustré, en image. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | malerisch (in painting, pictorially, picturesque, picturesquely, poetic, poetical, poetically, quaint, quaintly, scenic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εικονογραφικόσ (pictographic), εικονογραφημένοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ציורי (descriptive, graphic, picturesque, quaint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | képi (kepi), képeslap (mag, magazine, picture, picture postcard, postcard), festõi (picturesque). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | majalah bergambar, bergambar (illustrated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pittorico, illustrato (illustrated), figurato (figurative, unliteral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 絵入り (illustrated), 画報 (illustrated news magazine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がほう (art of drawing and painting, illustrated news magazine, spore), えいり (commercialized, illustrated, money-making, sharpness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | caslyssagh (figurative, picturesque), bio (activated, afloat, alive, bright, hot, lifelike, live, live person, spring tide after neap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ictorialpay pitoresco (colorful, colourful, pictoresque, picturesque, scenic, scenical), pictural, pictoresco (colorful, colourful, scenic, scenical), pictórico. (various references) plastic (fictile, graphic, graphical, graphically, plastic, soft, suggestively), pictural (pictorially), revistã ilustratã, magazin (boutique, emporium, magazine, repository, shop, store, storehouse), ilustrat (illustrated, pictured). (various references) живописный (graphic, picturesque, scenic, scenical, sightly). (various references) slikarski. (various references) pictórico. (various references) illustrerad (illustrated). (various references) resimli dergi, resimli (illustrated, picture), resim şeklinde, resim (drawing, dues, effigy, figure, illustration, image, likeness, painting, photo, picture, tablature, tableau, tax). (various references) яскравий (bright, brilliant, catchy, cheesy, colorful, colourful, flamboyant, flaming, florid, garish, gorgeous, high-colored, high-coloured, illustrious, lightsome, noisy, obvious, oriental, picturesque, powerful, quicksilver, sober, starry, vivid), ілюстроване періодичне видання, ілюстрований (illustrated), образотворчий (graphic, resemblant). (various references) hoạ báo, báo ảnh. (various references) darluniadol (illustrated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pictor, pictorius. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | pittoresco. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pictorial": pictorialism, pictorialisms, pictorialist, pictorialists, pictorialization, pictorializations, pictorialize, pictorialized, pictorializes, pictorializing, pictorially, pictorialness, pictorialnesses, pictorials. (additional references) | |
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"Pictorial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dictorial, pastorial, pictoral, picturable, Pictural, Pistoia, posterial. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pictorial" (pronounced piktô"rēul) |
| 7 | -k t ô" r ē u l | directorial. |
| 6 | -t ô" r ē u l | advertorial, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, editorial, equatorial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, janitorial, nomenclatorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, senatorial, territorial, tutorial. |
| 5 | -ô" r ē u l | ambassadorial, arboreal, immemorial, memorial, professorial. |
| 4 | -r ē u l | actuarial, adversarial, aerial, antibacterial, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, burial, cereal, endometrial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, immaterial, imperial, industrial, magisterial, malarial, managerial, material, mercurial, ministerial, secretarial, serial, terrestrial, venereal, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, testimonial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-l-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: tropical. | |
-2 letters: aplitic, apricot, aprotic, caltrop, capitol, coalpit, optical, parotic, piratic, politic, topical, tripoli. | |
-3 letters: aortic, atopic, captor, caroli, cartop, citola, citral, coital, iatric, italic, lictor, lorica, patrol, picaro, portal, rialto, rictal, tailor, tropic. | |
-4 letters: actor, aioli, aport, atrip, carol, carpi, cilia, clapt, claro, clipt, coapt, coati, copal, copra, coral, coria, iliac, licit, lirot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: pictorials. | |
+2 letters: pictorially, piscatorial, replication, tropicalize. | |
+3 letters: hypocritical, lithographic, pictorialism, pictorialist, pictorialize, plagiotropic, polarimetric, replications, semitropical, triplication, tropicalized, tropicalizes. | |
+4 letters: comparability, coplanarities, corporalities, inscriptional, intertropical, microparticle, parasitologic, parfocalities, patriotically, personalistic, philanthropic, pictorialisms, pictorialists, pictorialized, pictorializes, pictorialness, prehistorical, probabilistic, provincialist, provinciality, reapplication, recompilation, reduplication, republication, triplications, triploblastic, tropicalizing. | |
+5 letters: aphoristically, conspirational, conspiratorial, corporealities, hypocoristical, hypocritically, interparochial, isentropically, keratinophilic, microparticles, micropulsation, overcapitalize, parabiotically, paradoxicality, pertinaciously, pictorializing, prepublication, primatological, processability, provincialists, pteridological, reapplications, recapitulation, recompilations, reduplications, republications, streptobacilli, ultrapatriotic, ultraprecision. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 69 63 74 6F 72 69 61 6C |
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