photograph

[ foh-tuh-graf, -grahf ]

noun

1. a picture produced by photography.

verb (used with object)

1. to take a photograph of.

verb (used without object)

1. to practice photography.
2. to be photographed or be suitable for being photographed in some specified way:

   The children photograph well.

photograph

/ ˈfəʊtəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf /

noun

1. 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

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

Other Words From

• photo·grapha·ble adjective
• re·photo·graph verb (used with object) noun
• unpho·to·grapha·ble adjective
• un·photo·graphed adjective
• well-photo·graphed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of photograph¹

First recorded in 1839; photo- + -graph

Example Sentences

Two important caveats I should mention about this guide …One, you’ll note the iZip I use in the photographs has a removable battery.

From Popular-Science

He then turned each photograph into small paintings, hundreds of which now line the interior of the police station.

From ProPublica

Eleven years later, Edwin Hubble spotted a Cepheid in a plate photograph from the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California.

From Quanta Magazine

To misdirect the algorithm, the researchers used an image translation algorithm known as CycleGAN, which excels at morphing photographs from one style into another.

From MIT Technology Review

Time permitting, Maynard planned to wander the city taking photographs.

From Quanta Magazine

No matter what Hitchcock said, what he did was to photograph our fears and make palpable the invisible.

From The Daily Beast

Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.

From The Daily Beast

So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?

From The Daily Beast

Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph Cirque du Soleil.

From The Daily Beast

Her solution: a bucket list of influential people and places to visit and photograph.

From The Daily Beast

I will drop his photograph into the fire, and tear the fly-leaf out of the Mrs. Browning he gave me.

From Project Gutenberg

The lady who accompanied her he guessed to be her stepsister; indeed, he had seen a photograph of her at Hill Street.

From Project Gutenberg

Was it possible, he wondered, that he had seen that striking face in some photograph, or perhaps in some illustrated paper?

From Project Gutenberg

A photograph taken on such a night is not, however, perceptibly inferior to one taken when the seeing is perfect.

From Project Gutenberg

So during the daytime Sara Lee looked—at intervals—at the photograph, and got that feel of drive and force.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• capture
• illustrate
• print
• reproduce
• shoot