description vs picture

picture vs description

description and picture both are nouns.

description is not a verb while picture is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
description	Yes	No	No	No
picture	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, picture is a hyponym of description; that is, picture is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than description:

description: a statement that represents something in words
picture: a graphic or vivid verbal description

Other hyponyms of description include job description, spec, specification, characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, word picture.

description (noun)	picture (noun)
sort or variety	a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
the act of describing something	graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
a statement that represents something in words	a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
	a clear and telling mental image
	a typical example of some state or quality
	illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
	the visible part of a television transmission
	a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
	a graphic or vivid verbal description
	a situation treated as an observable object

description (verb)	picture (verb)
	show in, or as in, a picture
	imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

Difference between description and picture

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