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photograph
[ foh-tuh-graf, -grahf ]
verb (used with object)
- to take a photograph of.
verb (used without object)
- to practice photography.
- to be photographed or be suitable for being photographed in some specified way:
The children photograph well.
photograph
/ ˈfəʊtəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf /
noun
- an image of an object, person, scene, etc, in the form of a print or slide recorded by a camera on photosensitive material Often shortened tophoto
verb
- to take a photograph of (an object, person, scene, etc)
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Other Words From
- photo·grapha·ble adjective
- re·photo·graph verb (used with object) noun
- unpho·to·grapha·ble adjective
- un·photo·graphed adjective
- well-photo·graphed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of photograph1
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Example Sentences
No matter what Hitchcock said, what he did was to photograph our fears and make palpable the invisible.
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?
Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph Cirque du Soleil.
Her solution: a bucket list of influential people and places to visit and photograph.
I will drop his photograph into the fire, and tear the fly-leaf out of the Mrs. Browning he gave me.
The lady who accompanied her he guessed to be her stepsister; indeed, he had seen a photograph of her at Hill Street.
Was it possible, he wondered, that he had seen that striking face in some photograph, or perhaps in some illustrated paper?
A photograph taken on such a night is not, however, perceptibly inferior to one taken when the seeing is perfect.
So during the daytime Sara Lee looked—at intervals—at the photograph, and got that feel of drive and force.
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