photograph
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈfoʊtəˌgræf/
:
fotografía
- My father holds me in the last photograph, the new spruce with a wide smile.
- take a photograph
- digital photographs
- black-and-white photographs
Let us begin with a photograph of two women.
- Let us begin with a photograph of two women.
- So there's this famous photograph of a falling man.
- I'd seen his photograph but his image was sickening.
- This is a book that deals with photographs of unseen weather.
- You know, he's, he takes photographs of himself being blown in.
- They were doing things with photographs that were not being done.
- So we did now photographs of what we was doing.
- Sometimes you need to curate your jockeying and photographs wisely.
Examples
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The experience cannot be conveyed by any number of photographs I tried to take.
Academic text (2011) -
Unfortunately, the photograph that they took is lost.
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Let us begin with a photograph of two women.
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Here is a photograph of Big Joe.
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And finally, the photograph of the dress.
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You carry her photograph in your pocket.
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I might have a photograph of my friend Ruth.
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Now we're going to take some photographs of you.
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You have an envelope of photographs in your pocket.
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Here is a beautiful photograph of the sunset over the mountains.
Synonyms
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1.0
An image like a drawing or photograph that shows something
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1.0
A picture made with a camera, printed or digital
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1.0
A picture showing a person or thing
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1.3
A photo printed on paper from a negative or digital file
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6.8
A photo made with a camera or phone
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3.1
A picture on paper made from a camera or digital file
Compounds
- Specialized
Two photos taken from slightly different angles that make a scene look three-dimensional when seen together
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
photograph = photo + graph
The word is built from the classical combining forms photo- and -graph, but the literal 'light-writing' composition only partly helps a learner infer the modern meaning.
Etymology
Photograph comes from photo 'light' and graph 'write', the same graph you see in autograph. A photograph is like a 'writing of light', which explains why a photo is an image made by light in a camera.