camera

CEFRA1

/ˈkæməɹə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A device that takes photographs or records video.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A vaulted room.

Examples

  • I'm going to buy myself a new camera, digital this time.

  • Just point the camera and press the button.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Also pronounced

  • /ˈkaməɹə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.

  2. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.

  3. A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

More examples

In context

  • Your camera is not as excellent as my camera.

  • I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

  • If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

To capture the beautiful sunset, she adjusted the lens on her new blank.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber. (device): An ellipsis of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.