photo

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈfəʊ.təʊ/, [ˈfəʊtʰəʊ]
• (America) IPA: /ˈfoʊ.toʊ/, [ˈfŏʊɾoʊ]

Noun

photo (plural photos)

1. (informal) A photograph.
2. (informal) A photo finish.
   • 2005, 28 June, Racing diary: In the shake-up (in The Telegraph)

     By this stage, Goof was clearly warming to his theme and, as they flashed past the post together, he reported that it was a photo. "And I don't know or care who won the photo," he concluded.

Verb

photo (photos, present participle photoing; past and past participle photoed)

1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
   • [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

     What fun to be photoed together, / What luck for a break so opportune. / Oh, what a lark / To be posed in the park / Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.

   • 1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine

     He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

     Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

Related terms

• photog
• photographer

Translations

• French: photographier
• Italian: fotografare
• Spanish: instantánea

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