noun

• (dated or India) A motion picture.
  "Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture."
• (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
  "Let's go to the pictures."
• (MLE) A sample of an illegal drug.
  "If you want me to buy your weed I’ll need a picture."
• (programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.
  "The COBOL restriction for the currency symbol in a picture string to be replaced by a single character currency symbol is a compromise solution."

verb

• (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
  "while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut."
• (transitive) To imagine or envision.
  "Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies"
• (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.
  "I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose."