Definitions for photograph
ˈfoʊ təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑfpho·to·graph

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic(verb)

   a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

2. photograph, snap, shoot(verb)

   record on photographic film

   "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"

3. photograph(verb)

   undergo being photographed in a certain way

   "Children photograph well"

Wiktionary(2.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. photograph(Noun)

   A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

2. photograph(Verb)

   To take a photograph of.

3. photograph(Verb)

   To take photographs.

4. photograph(Verb)

   To appear in a photograph.

   She photographs well. The camera loves her.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Photograph(noun)

   a picture or likeness obtained by photography

   Etymology: [Photo- + -graph.]

2. Photograph(verb)

   to take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group

   Etymology: [Photo- + -graph.]

3. Photograph(verb)

   to practice photography; to take photographs

   Etymology: [Photo- + -graph.]

Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Photograph

   A photograph or photo is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating photographs is called photography. The word "photograph" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς, meaning "light", and γραφή, meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light".

Etymology and Origins(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Photograph

   From the two Greek words photos, light, and graphein, to write. Accordingly a picture obtained by the action of light and transferred to paper chemically prepared.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'photograph' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3999

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'photograph' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2666

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'photograph' in Nouns Frequency: #810

How to pronounce photograph?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of photograph in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of photograph in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of photograph in a Sentence

1. Stephen Tomlinson:

   She is not holding the gun in a malicious manner, she is not pointing it anywhere. It’s to me, in my opinion, a nice photograph of a young lady in the Adirondack region that enjoys hunting.

2. Jamie Cooper in Lincolnshire:

   I managed to photograph the comet approaching on Sunday evening through a small telescope, the comet has a similar orbit to the Great Comet of 1844, leading to speculation on whether C/2019 Y4 is a fragment of the same parent body.

3. Jackie Speier:

   It is a true story ... It's one of the stories I occasionally tell because it had some very unfortunate consequences. Afterwards my mother gave me a bowl haircut, so for the school photograph later in that week I looked like Richard the Third.

4. Will Welch:

   On one hand we can't do traditional photo shoots or in-person reporting during social distancing and self-quarantine, on the other, there is so much powerful technology at our disposal that we get to harness in new ways. So we're doing meetings on Zoom, asking subjects to photograph themselves, going live on Instagram, asking artists and other creative people in our community to make stuff for us, and doing our reporting over the phone.

5. Charniele Herring:

   Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam told me personally on Friday that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam acknowledges it was Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in the photograph.

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