Audio English.net » Dictionary » P » Pickerel Weed ... Picus

PICTURE PLANE

Pronunciation (US):

Dictionary entry overview: What does picture plane mean?

• PICTURE PLANE (noun)
The noun PICTURE PLANE has 1 sense:

1. the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work

Familiarity information: PICTURE PLANE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PICTURE PLANE (noun)

Sense 1

picture plane ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("picture plane" is a kind of...):

plane; sheet ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape)

Holonyms ("picture plane" is a part of...):

linear perspective; perspective (the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer)

Learn English with... Proverbs of the week

"Life's a bleach and then you dye." (English proverb)

"Who pats the chicken, eats the egg." (Albanian proverb)

"All sunshine makes a desert." (Arabic proverb)

"Gentle doctors cause smelly wounds." (Dutch proverb)

Page delivered in 0.0437 seconds