photograph

[foh-tuh-graf, -grahf]

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noun

a picture produced by photography.

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.

Origin of photograph

First recorded in 1839; photo- + -graph

Related formspho·to·graph·a·ble, adjectivere·pho·to·graph, verb (used with object), nounun·pho·to·graph·a·ble, adjectiveun·pho·to·graphed, adjectivewell-pho·to·graphed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for photograph

Contemporary Examples

No matter what Hitchcock said, what he did was to photograph our fears and make palpable the invisible.
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David Freeman
December 13, 2014
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
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William O’Connor
December 12, 2014
So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?
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Kimberly Dozier
December 11, 2014
Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph Cirque du Soleil.
A Backstage Love Affair With Cirque du Soleil
Allison McNearney
December 1, 2014
Her solution: a bucket list of influential people and places to visit and photograph.
Annie Leibovitz Talks About ‘Pilgrimage,’ Susan Sontag, Vogue & More
Justin Jones
November 20, 2014

Historical Examples

I'll get his photograph, and publish a newspaper portrait of him.
In the Midst of Alarms
Robert Barr
When she died I pasted the dear old lady's photograph inside the upper lid.
The Underdog
F. Hopkinson Smith
It captured and imprisoned the sounds as the photograph retained the images of light.
Heroes of the Telegraph
J. Munro
I am not going to break down; but—but there is a photograph of Rogie when he was very small—'
Echoes of the War
J. M. Barrie
I have seen it or a photograph of it somewhere, and at some time.
The Slave Of The Lamp
Henry Seton Merriman

British Dictionary definitions for photograph

photograph

noun

an image of an object, person, scene, etc, in the form of a print or slide recorded by a camera on photosensitive materialOften shortened to: photo

verb

to take a photograph of (an object, person, scene, etc)

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Word Origin and History for photograph

n.

1839, "picture obtained by photography," coined by Sir John Herschel from photo- + -graph "instrument for recording; something written." It won out over other suggestions, such as photogene and heliograph. Neo-Anglo-Saxonists prefer sunprint. The verb, as well as photography, are first found in a paper read before the Royal Society on March 14, 1839.

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Examples from the Web for photograph

Contemporary Examples

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.

Historical Examples

I'll get his photograph, and publish a newspaper portrait of him.

When she died I pasted the dear old lady's photograph inside the upper lid.

It captured and imprisoned the sounds as the photograph retained the images of light.

I am not going to break down; but—but there is a photograph of Rogie when he was very small—'

I have seen it or a photograph of it somewhere, and at some time.

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Word Origin and History for photograph

n.

Origin of photograph