photo
Origin of photo
1Other definitions for photo- (2 of 2)
a combining form meaning “light” (photobiology); also used to represent “photographic” or “photograph” in the formation of compound words: photocopy.
Origin of photo-
2- Also especially before a vowel, phot-.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use photo in a sentence
There are four photos there of representative presidential candidates.
Today’s GOP: Still Cool With Racist Pandering? | Michael Tomasky | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTRELATED: NYPD Salutes Murdered Officer Wenjian Liu (Photos) Police motorcycles rumbled past.
Christie has problems, and they begin with the fact that photos and videos and memes can haunt us.
With her family we looked over photos and video of her husband.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind | Brin-Jonathan Butler | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST(Somewhere, on another cloud, live gigabytes of photos from these very parties).
My mother collared one of the photos, of course; the other is stuck up on my wall as the chief of our sept.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonThe great pointed arch which framed the gable windows gave exceptional grace to the faade (photos, p. 73).
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres | UnknownWe have been corresponding for several years, he sending me many drawings and I sending him still photos from pictures.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie ChaplinFifty minutes there for photos; then hurried on in the hope of seeing more higher up and at a greater distance.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryAnd I may add that nowadays photos play a great part in the first stage of the inquiries.
A Fantasy of Far Japan | Baron Kencho Suyematsu
British Dictionary definitions for photo (1 of 2)
/ (ˈfəʊtəʊ) /
British Dictionary definitions for photo- (2 of 2)
of, relating to, or produced by light: photosynthesis
indicating a photographic process: photolithography
Origin of photo-
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for photo-
A prefix that means light, as in photoreceptor.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Browse