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PHOTO

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

Synonyms:

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("photo" is a kind of...):

representation (a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "photo"):

scene; shot (a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film)

wedding picture (photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding)

vignette (a photograph whose edges shade off gradually)

time exposure (a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time)

telephotograph (a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance)

telephoto; telephotograph (a photograph made with a telephoto lens)

still (a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes))

stereo; stereoscopic photograph; stereoscopic picture (two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together)

spectrogram; spectrograph (a photographic record of a spectrum)

shot; snap; snapshot (an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera)

radiogram; radiograph; shadowgraph; skiagram; skiagraph (a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays))

photomicrograph (a photograph taken with the help of a microscope)

photographic print; print (a printed picture produced from a photographic negative)

stock image; stock photograph (an exisitng photograph licensed for a specific use)

photocopy (a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work)

mug shot; mugshot (a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records))

arial mosaic; mosaic; photomosaic (arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture)

microdot (photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security))

longshot (a photograph taken from a distance)

hologram; holograph (the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography)

headshot (a photograph of a person's head)

glossy (a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper)

frame (a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film)

blowup; enlargement; magnification (a photographic print that has been enlarged)

daguerreotype (a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor)

closeup (a photograph taken at close range)

cheesecake (a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire)

blueprint (photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.)

black and white; monochrome (a black-and-white photograph or slide)

beefcake (a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire)

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 Context examples: 

A computer-controlled presentation of some combination of audio, video, animation, graphics, still photo, and/or text where users can control the presentation and often interact with it.

(Multimedia, NCI Thesaurus)

This can be abused to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos and so on.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)

And an app developed by the same team at the Institute of Global Health, dubbed SNAPP, will use machine learning to help health workers by identifying a snake from a photo supplied by them, a victim or a bystander.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

We have bought equipment like sensor cameras and bio-acoustic devices that listen for the night parrots and extraordinarily we have got a photo of a night parrot flying across one of the sensor cameras.

(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)

In 1995, a Hubble photo showed the long axis of the spot at an estimated 13,020 miles across.

(Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking, NASA)

Previously, the only available diagnostic atlas featured photos of patients with northern European ancestry, which often does not represent the characteristics of these diseases in patients from other parts of the world.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

Shortly after landing, the Chang’e-4 sent a photo of the lunar surface to the Queqiao (“Magpie Bridge”) satellite, which was launched last May in the first phase of the historic mission.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

When complete, the atlas will consist of photos of physical traits of people with many different inherited diseases around the world, including Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, South America and sub-Saharan Africa.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

Health care providers can use the new atlas to diagnose diverse patients with inherited diseases by comparing physical traits (called phenotypes) and written descriptions of their symptoms with photos and descriptions of people with the same condition and ancestry.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)