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Definition of Photograph - 6 dictionary results

pho⋅to⋅graph

[foh-tuh-graf, -grahf]
–noun
1. a picture produced by photography.
–verb (used with object)
2. to take a photograph of.
–verb (used without object)
3. to practice photography.
4. to be photographed or be suitable for being photographed in some specified way: The children photograph well.

Origin:
1839; photo- + -graph


pho⋅to⋅graph⋅a⋅ble, adjective
pho·to·graph   (fō'tə-grāf')   
n.  An image, especially a positive print, recorded by a camera and reproduced on a photosensitive surface.
v.   pho·to·graphed, pho·to·graph·ing, pho·to·graphs

v.   tr.
To take a photograph of.
v.   intr.
  1. To practice photography.
  2. To be the subject for photographs: She photographs well.
pho'to·graph'a·ble adj., pho·tog'ra·pher (fə-tŏg'rə-fər) n.

Photograph

Pho"to*graph\, n. [Photo- + -graph.] A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

Photograph

Pho"to*graph\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Photographed; p. pr. & vb. n. Photographing.] To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.

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

Note: Also used figuratively.

He is photographed on my mind. --Lady D. Hardy.

Photograph

Pho"to*graph\, v. i. To practice photography; to take photographs.
Language Translation for : Photograph
Spanish: fotografía,
German: die Fotografie,
Japanese: 写真

photograph  (n.)
1839, "picture obtained by photography," coined by Sir John Herschel from photo- + -graph "instrument for recording." It won out over other suggestions, such as photogene and heliograph. Neo-Anglo-Saxonists prefer sunprint. The verb and photography also are first attested 1839, all from a paper read before the Royal Society on March 14, 1839.
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