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photograph

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈfəʊ̯.tʰə̥ˌɡɹ̠ɑːf]/
  • United States//ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæf//
  • United States/[ˈfoʊ̯.ɾəˌɡɹ̠æf]/

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

noun

  1. 1

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

    The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.

    A photograph showing a column of tenodd cars with black registration plates moving along an empty highway on their way to Subotica, […]

    Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photograph From photo- + -graph.

verb

  1. 1

    To take a photograph (of).

    He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.

    The boy who made headlines when he was photographed hugging an officer during a 2014 protest against police brutality is missing after his family’s SUV plunged 100 feet off a coastal highway in California, officials said Wednesday.

    As the game worlds we explore have become more beautiful, players have become more interested in photographing them and sharing the results.

  2. 2

    figurativeTo fix permanently in the memory etc.

    He is photographed on my mind.

    The scene and its surroundings were photographed on my memory.

  3. 3

    To appear in a photograph.

    She photographs well. The camera loves her.

    He told me that he liked Dolls Kill just fine—its clothes photographed well and he always wore them to Coachella—but attending this event was basically work for him.

Forms

plural
photographs
past tense
photographed
past participle
photographed
present participle
photographing
third person singular
photographs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).