The phrase "a basic picture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a simple or fundamental representation of something, often in a metaphorical or illustrative context.
Example: "To understand the concept better, let's start with a basic picture of how the system works."
Alternatives: "a simple illustration" or "a fundamental representation".
We just have to be able to draw a basic picture which is free of paradoxes.
Scientists already have a basic picture of the machinery that creates head-tail and front-back differences.
Often, many meetings were needed even before the formal project evaluation process started, just to gain a basic picture of potential benefits, costs, and risks involved, and to determine the type of data needed.
"A basic picture of how traders are doing will be visible while obviously protecting the anonymity of the user and based on that information, other users can choose to follow or piggyback for an added fee," says Shaham.
Essentially, Marcus' comments seem to offer a basic picture of at least TWC's side of things: Apple can dress it up however they want, but in the end there still needs to be a TWC logo somewhere in that interface, and the cable co.
Figure 1 provides a basic picture of the dynamics of indirect reciprocity in the simple image scoring model.
Although many molecular details remain to be elucidated in the future, the reconstituted bottom-up assays suggest that we already possess a very basic picture of lamellipodia-based cell migration on the molecular level.
"The finding that much of the regular stuff is WHIM-sical and that it is associated with the largest-scale structures seen in galaxies is a confirmation of the basic picture of how the regular stuff in the universe is predicted to behave in such a universe".
The BBIS can therefore be said to be a means of obtaining a basic generic picture of body image, to which users could add further items (organ-related items, disease-related items, etc).
This $99 device "doubles as a photo frame" and is a clock radio with some basic picture frame functionality built-in along with 802.11g for the weather feed.
However, this basic picture disguises an epic battle to turn out the vote.
