painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
painting | the act of applying paint to a surface, you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush |
spray painting | applying paint with a sprayer |
finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint |
photography picture taking | the act of taking and printing photographs |
filming cinematography motion-picture photography | the act of making a film |
painting | creating a picture with paints, he studied painting and sculpture for many years |
oil painting | the art or method of painting with oil paints |
blue wall of silence blue wall wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper tichodrome Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
Abstract Expressionism action painting | a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions, the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles |
Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
Chinese Wall Great Wall Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
cinema movie theater movie theatre movie house picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
face card picture card court card | one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face |
finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers |
gable gable end gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
gallery art gallery picture gallery | a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited |
genre painting | a genre depicting everyday life |
hanging wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
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 |
landscape landscape painting | a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery |
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 |
mural wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
nude nude painting | a painting of a naked human figure |
oil painting | a picture painted with oil paints |
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 |
party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
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 |
proscenium proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
roentgenogram X ray Xay Xay picture Xay photograph | a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays, used in medical diagnosis |
sand painting | a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho), made of fine colored sands on a neutral background |
stereo stereoscopic picture stereoscopic photograph | two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness, used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure, the south wall had a small window, the walls were covered with pictures |