photograph

CEFRA2

/ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf/

noun · verb

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At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

To fix permanently in the memory etc.
To take a photograph (of).
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

In context

She photographs well. The camera loves her.
The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.
A photograph showing a column of tenodd cars with black registration plates moving along an empty highway on their way to Subotica, […]

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The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.
1975 May 4, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024
A photograph showing a column of tenodd cars with black registration plates moving along an empty highway on their way to Subotica, […]
1994 February 21, Dejan Anastasijevic, “VREME: The Front Page: The Departure”, in TOL, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2020
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
2012 March 26, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106
He told me that he liked Dolls Kill just fine—its clothes photographed well and he always wore them to Coachella—but attending this event was basically work for him.
2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2021
He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing

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From photo- + -graph.