photograph

[ foh-tuh-graf, -grahf ]

/ ˈfoʊ təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

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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.

Nearby words

photogenic, photogenic epilepsy, photogeology, photogram, photogrammetry, photograph, photographer, photographic, photography, photogravure, photoheliograph

Origin of photograph

First recorded in 1839; photo- + -graph

Related forms

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

well-pho·to·graphed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for photograph

No matter what Hitchcock said, what he did was to photograph our fears and make palpable the invisible.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
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So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?
CIA Interrogation Chief: ‘Rectal Feeding,’ Broken Limbs Are News to Me|Kimberly Dozier|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST

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|DAILY BEAST
The carriage was stopped; Jane sprang out, and ran back to photograph three little girls in a cottage garden.
Mrs. Thompson|William Babington Maxwell
With the opening installment of the first serial the Free Press published a photograph of the author over a stickful of biography.
The Fiction Factory|John Milton Edwards
"Cut and finish it just like this one," and he handed the tailor a photograph of Sure Pop.
Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts|Roy Rutherford Bailey
I had noticed hanging on the wall of the room a photograph, framed in wood, of His Highness the Amr.
At the Court of the Amr|John Alfred Gray
The photograph was marked Commission Exhibit No. 398 for identification.
Warren Commission (2 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

British Dictionary definitions for photograph

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 materialOften shortened to: photo

verb

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

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photograph

noun

verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

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photograph

noun

verb