photograph
Etymology Pronunciation Noun
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Etymology Pronunciation 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.
- French: photographie, photo
- German: Photographie, Fotografie, Foto, Lichtbild, Bild
- Italian: fotografia, foto
- Portuguese: fotografia, foto, retrato
- Russian: фотогра́фия
- Spanish: fotografía, foto
photograph (photographs, present participle photographing; simple past and past participle photographed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
- 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing:
- He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
- (transitive, figurative) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
- 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands:
- He is photographed on my mind.
- (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.
- She photographs well. The camera loves her.
- French: photographier
- German: fotografieren
- Italian: fotografare
- Portuguese: fotografar
- Russian: фотографи́ровать
- Spanish: fotografiar, tomar una foto
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