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Definition of photograph noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

photograph

noun
 
 
/ˈfəʊtəɡrɑːf/
 
/ˈfəʊtəɡræf/
(also photo)
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  1. a picture that is made by using a camera that stores images in digital form or that has a film sensitive to light inside it
    • aerial photographs of the crash site
    • colour/black-and-white photographs
    • an exhibition of photographs by Annie Liebowitz
    • a framed photograph of her grandchildren
    • His photograph appeared in the local paper.
    • Please enclose a recent passport-sized photograph of yourself.
    • I spent the day taking photographs of the city.
    • to post/upload a photograph
    • to publish/release a photograph
    The usual phrase in North American English is take pictures.
    Synonyms photographphotographpicture ▪ photo ▪ shot ▪ snapshot/​snap ▪ printThese are all words for a picture that has been made using a camera.photograph a picture that has been made using a camera:
    • a photograph of the house
    • Can I take a photograph?
    picture a photograph:
    • We had our picture taken in front of the hotel.
    photo a photograph:
    • a passport photo
     photograph, picture or photo?Photograph is slightly more formal and photo is slightly less formal. Picture is used especially in the context of photographs in newspapers, magazines and books.shot a photograph:
    • I tried to get a shot of him in the water.
    Shot often places more emphasis on the process of taking the photograph, rather than the finished picture.    snapshot/​snap an informal photograph that is taken quickly, and not by a professional photographer:
    • holiday snaps
    print a copy of a photograph that is produced from film or from a digital camera:
    • a set of prints
    Patterns
    • a colour photograph/​picture/​photo/​snap/​print
    • to take a photograph/​picture/​photo/​shot/​snapshot
    Extra Examples
    • An aerial photograph of the field shows clearly where the buildings were.
    • Can I have my photograph taken with you?
    • Did you manage to get a photograph of the goal?
    • Frame the subject in the video viewfinder as you would for a still photograph.
    • Her photograph appeared in all the papers.
    • I cropped the photograph and mounted it on some card.
    • I got some great photographs of the party.
    • I prefer to print my digital photographs.
    • I scanned some old photographs of the family to send to friends by email.
    • I'm learning how to post photographs on my blog.
    • Send a recent facial photograph of yourself with your application.
    • She scans each photograph into her computer.
    • Tell me who everyone is in the photograph.
    • The book is illustrated with 96 action photographs.
    • The cover photograph of the magazine showed a snow leopard.
    • The first issue featured a photograph of Martha Graham on the cover.
    • The newspaper published a grainy photograph of her.
    • The next day they published photographs of the kidnappers.
    • The photograph has been touched up to conceal his double chin.
    • The photograph manages to capture the excitement of the occasion.
    • The photographs were clear and sharp.
    • The sun rising over the horizon would have made a good photograph.
    • The wing is assembled as shown in the photograph below.
    • This photograph is out of focus.
    • Tinted photographs were an early substitute for colour.
    • Upload your photographs to one of these sites.
    • We looked through her old black-and-white photographs.
    • We posed for a group photograph.
    • a couple of photographs released by news agencies
    • a fuzzy black-and-white photograph
    • a photograph of my son Edmund
    • editing software that enables you to enlarge and crop photographs
    • photograph courtesy Liverpool Evening News
    • satellite photographs of Beijing
    • the famous photograph of Che Guevara
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • old
    • recent
    • early
    • …
    verb + photograph
    • get
    • shoot
    • take
    • …
    photograph + verb
    • appear
    • depict something
    • document something
    • …
    photograph + noun
    • album
    • frame
    preposition
    • in a/​the photograph
    • photograph of
    See full entry
See photograph in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee photograph in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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