picturing
present participle ofpicture
| 单词 | picturing |
| 释义 | picturing present participle ofpicture picture verb[T] uk/ˈpɪk.tʃər/us/ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/C1 toimaginesomething: Picturethescene- thecrowdsofpeopleandanimals, thenoise, thedirt. [+ -ing verb]Try to picture yourself lyingon abeachin thehotsun. [+ question word]Picturetoyourselfhowterriblethatdaymust have been. formalHe was pictured(= anartisthadpaintedhim)asasoldierinfulluniform. to imagine something
Imagining and conceiving
Examplesofpicturingpicturing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Either way, both sides engage in deliberate reification and both gain bypicturingthe economy as largely abstracted from experience. From theCambridge English Corpus They are present and the dialogue between volume and void, shape as full and shape as empty, is crucial to the play ofpicturing. From theCambridge English Corpus Until about mid-century,picturinga man recumbent was a way to make him effeminate, a juxtaposition strikingly revealed in a political cartoon from roughly 1838. From theCambridge English Corpus Another way ofpicturingthe mobility of servants is to look at their duration of stay with the same master. From theCambridge English Corpus For the rest we are dealing with religious ideas that affect group picturings. From theCambridge English Corpus It may thus be doubted whether these observations are sufficiently accurate forpicturingthe situation in 1993. From theCambridge English Corpus Super valuationism meets this requirement bypicturingborderline propositions as being neither true nor false. From theCambridge English Corpus Cartwright dismisses the notion of representation as 'picturing' and suggests that models 'resemble the situation they represent' (p. 262). From theCambridge English Corpus This article explores the intellectual implications ofpicturingin a discipline that has thought of itself as preeminently about the use of words and their linear logics. From theCambridge English Corpus Landscape began as a device for 'picturing' the world and its spaces, and as such it is intrinsically a theatrical construct: it is the staging of a cultural fiction. From theCambridge English Corpus I waspicturingto myself what happens in these cases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The clause, as drafted, could preclude naming the school andpicturingthe children because some of them might be witnesses at the forthcoming trial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been too much exaggeration in these discussions, too muchpicturingof hypothetical evils which have no real probability whatever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Picturingin one's mind the first allotment, its occupants appear to have met many vicissitudes and difficulties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is impossible to think of one withoutpicturingthe other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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