PHOTOGRAPH

photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic

(noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

photograph, snap, shoot

(verb) record on photographic film; “I photographed the scene of the accident”; “She snapped a picture of the President”

photograph

(verb) undergo being photographed in a certain way; “Children photograph well”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

photograph (plural photographs)

A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

Verb

photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)

(transitive) To take a photograph of.

(transitive, figurative) To fix permanently in the memory etc.

(intransitive) To take photographs.

(intransitive) To appear in a photograph.

Anagrams

• phagotroph

Source: Wiktionary


Pho"to*graph, n. Etym: [Photo- + -graph.]

Definition: A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

Pho"to*graph, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Photographed; p. pr. & vb. n. Photographing.]

Definition: To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group. He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood. Hamerton.

Note: Also used figuratively. He is photographed on my mind. Lady D. Hardy.

Pho"to*graph, v. i.

Definition: To practice photography; to take photographs.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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