get the picture Definition

picture
noun

1. A representation of someone or something on a flat surface; a drawing, painting or photograph.

Thesaurus: portrait, photograph, snapshot, print, painting, drawing, illustration, cartoon.
2. Someone's portrait.
3. A view; a mental image.

Example: a clear picture of the battle
Thesaurus: view, image, sight, spectacle.
4. A situation or outlook.

Example: a gloomy financial picture
5. A person or thing strikingly like another.

Example: She is the picture of her mother
Thesaurus: image, spitting image (slang), copy, replica.
6. A visible embodiment.

Example: was the picture of happiness
Thesaurus: embodiment, representation, image, epitome.
7. An image of beauty.

Example: looks a picture
8. The image received on a television screen.

Example: We get a good picture
9. A film; a motion picture.

Thesaurus: movie, film, flick (slang).
10. colloq
The cinema.
Example: went to the pictures last night
Form: the pictures

verb pictured, picturing

1. To imagine or visualize

Example: Just picture that settee in our lounge.
Thesaurus: imagine, conceive of, envision, visualize, conjure up.
2. To describe something or someone vividly; to depict.
3. To represent or show someone or something in a picture or photograph.

Thesaurus: depict, illustrate, render, delineate, sketch, draw, paint, portray.

Idiom: get the picture

colloq
To understand something.

Idiom: in the picture

Informed of all the relevant facts, etc.

Idiom: put me in the picture (put her, him etc in the picture)

Give me, them etc all the relevant facts, information, etc.

Etymology: 15c: from Latin pictura painting.