# picturing

Pronunciation: US say "PIK-chur-ing" /ˈpɪk(t)ʃəɹɪŋ/; UK say "PIK-chuh-ring" /ˈpɪk(t)ʃəɹɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle of picture. — present participle and gerund of picture
   - Simple: Present participle of picture. Use this form for the ongoing act of imagining or showing something.
   - _Picturing the finished house helped them plan the renovation._
   - _He spent the long drive picturing how the meeting might unfold._

## Noun

2. A visual representation of something; the act or result of depicting a subject in images.
   - Simple: The act of showing something as a picture, or the image that results.
   - _The novel's vivid picturing of frontier hardship stayed with readers for years._
   - _Critics praised the film's unflinching picturing of wartime loss._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/picturing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).