sheet-metal work | the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems) |
photography picture taking | the act of taking and printing photographs |
filming cinematography motion-picture photography | the act of making a film |
cinema movie theater movie theatre movie house picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
cookie sheet baking tray | a cooking utensil consisting of a flat rectangular metal sheet used for baking cookies or biscuits |
dust cover dust sheet | a large piece of cloth used to cover furniture that is not in use for a long period |
face card picture card court card | one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face |
fitted sheet contour sheet | a sheet (usually with elastic edges) tailored to fit a particular mattress |
gallery art gallery picture gallery | a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited |
Identikit Identikit picture | a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police, uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought |
kinescope picture tube television tube | a cathodeay tube in a television receiver, translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen |
motion-picture camera movie camera cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
motion-picture film movie film cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
painting picture | 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 |
pall shroud cerement winding-sheet windinglothes | burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped |
photograph photo exposure picture pic | a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide, recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material |
picture image icon ikon | 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 |
picture book | a book consisting chiefly of pictures |
picture frame | a framework in which a picture is mounted |
picture hat | a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim |
picture rail | rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures |
picture window | a large window with a single pane (usually overlooking a view) |
pixel pel picture element | (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution |
plate glass sheet glass | glass formed into large thin sheets |
roentgenogram X ray Xay Xay picture Xay photograph | a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays, used in medical diagnosis |
sail canvas canvass sheet | a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel |
sheet bed sheet | bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth, used in pairs |
sheet tack mainsheet weather sheet shroud | (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind |
sheet flat solid | a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width |
sheet anchor waist anchor | spare anchor for use in emergency |
sheet bend becket bend weaver's knot weaver's hitch | a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) |
sheet iron | plate iron thinner than tank iron |
sheet metal | sheet of metal formed into a thin plate |
sheet pile sheath pile sheet piling | a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage |
sheet web | an irregular spider web woven in a single plane and looking like flattened hammocks |
stereo stereoscopic picture stereoscopic photograph | two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together |
tent-fly rainfly fly sheet fly tent flap | flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent |
wedding picture | photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding |
picture | a typical example of some state or quality, the very picture of a modern general, she was the picture of despair |
memory picture | a memory image that is similar to a visual perception |
mental picture picture impression | 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 |
sheet piece of paper sheet of paper | paper used for writing or printing |
tear sheet | a sheet that can be easily torn out of a publication |
style sheet | a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be followed in preparing text for publication |
tabloid rag sheet | newspaper with half-size pages |
video picture | the visible part of a television transmission, they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone |
picture writing | a writing system using pictographs |
blotter day book police blotter rap sheet charge sheet | the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station |
time sheet | a record of the hours worked by employees |
flow chart flowchart flow diagram flow sheet | a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system |