Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to move away from light.
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- adjective biology having a
negative phototropic orphototactic response ;repelled bylight
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Examples
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Pandas aren’t that cute … those black spots around their eyes make them look like fuzzy orcas in photonegative.
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Something about the lighting of the shot split the image directly in half, showcasing the photonegative quality of each figure.
Fashionista Micol Ostow 2009
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Mr. Pia's stark photonegative images of the Shroud spread around the world.
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One particularly raw ad took off from a Time magazine cover, a sinister photonegative portrait of Clinton with a headline promising to tell why people didn't trust him.
A SILVER BULLET 2008
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Both candidates are brilliant minds, but Barack Obama is in addition eloquent, sincere, inspiring and black; in short, a photonegative of George W. Bush -- and Hillary.
Andrew Foster Altschul: ZZ Packer Takes on Geraldine Ferraro 2008
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Both candidates are brilliant minds, but no one can't deny that Barack Obama is, in addition, eloquent, sincere, inspiring and black; in short, a photonegative of George W. Bush -- and Hillary.
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Contemporary London a photonegative of Early Modern London: a central area in which people live (now: in which livelihoods are pursued), surrounded by a ring in which livelihoods are pursued (now: where people live).
Modern London Adam Roberts Project 2008
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There was also a "negative" Batman issue where he appeared as a photonegative of himself.
The Black Casebook of the Batman Brian Hughes 2007
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As the Sun shines through the rings, they take on the appearance of a photonegative: the dense
WN.com - Articles related to Product Review: Easy Cake Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate 2010
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As the Sun shines through the rings, they take on the appearance of a photonegative: the dense
WN.com - Articles related to Product Review: Easy Cake Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate 2010
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