Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An image, especially a positive print, recorded by exposing a photosensitive surface to light, especially in a camera.
  • intransitive verb To take a photograph of.
  • intransitive verb To practice photography.
  • intransitive verb To be the subject for photographs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To produce a likeness or facsimile of by photographic means
  • noun A picture produced by any process of photography.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
  • intransitive verb To practice photography; to take photographs.
  • transitive verb To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
  • verb transitive To take a photograph of.
  • verb intransitive To take photographs.
  • verb intransitive To appear in a photograph.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb undergo being photographed in a certain way
  • noun a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
  • verb record on photographic film

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

photo- + -graph

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Examples

  • It is a photograph of the original without any of that harshness which so often accompanies a photograph_. "

    MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 Unknown

  • Without a second thought I thrust the portmanteau photograph into my jacket, leapt towards the bookcase and brought it crashing down between my discoverers and me.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • Without a second thought I thrust the portmanteau photograph into my jacket, leapt towards the bookcase and brought it crashing down between my discoverers and me.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • As I turned, however, I noticed on the desk a portmanteau photograph in a tortoiseshell frame.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • As I turned, however, I noticed on the desk a portmanteau photograph in a tortoiseshell frame.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • Near the centre of the photograph is the Wolfe Tone Bridge, and in the right middleground you can see part of the Spanish Arch. Here is the Spanish Arch from the other side, with a heron and some pigeons – the former a frequent visitor, the latter virtually resident:

    Swanlike boat, boatlike swan 2009

  • The destruction and creation of her photograph is a very powerful image to me.

    Some Reasons Why I Love the Terminator Mythos trinfaneb 2008

  • Zoe Paraskevas believes the animal in the photograph is a black panther.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • On a much lighter note, the photograph is the first image I have seen of Addington.

    Matthew Yglesias » Unlimited Government 2007

  • Apparently only when a photograph is an actual record of "degrading" acts can they manage to call attention to what they can then identify as the "art" in photography, "libertine" though it may be.

    Politics and Literature 2007

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