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PHOTOGRAPH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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 ("photograph" 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 "photograph"):

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)

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

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

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

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

closeup (a photograph taken at close range)

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)

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

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

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

headshot (a photograph of a person's head)

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

longshot (a photograph taken from a distance)

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

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

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

Derivation:

photograph (record on photographic film)

photograph (undergo being photographed in a certain way)

photographic (relating to photography or obtained by using photography)

photography (the act of taking and printing photographs)

photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Record on photographic film

Example:

She snapped a picture of the President

Synonyms:

photograph; shoot; snap

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "photograph" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Verb group:

film; shoot; take (make a film or photograph of something)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "photograph"):

retake (photograph again)

x-ray (take an x-ray of something or somebody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

photograph (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Undergo being photographed in a certain way

Example:

Children photograph well

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

photograph (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I will take this photograph of Blessington, which I see upon the mantelpiece, as it may help me in my inquiries.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Face photographs in which the features had been scrambled were not matched with green at all.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

Besides, he looked like the photographs of the Alaskan dogs they saw published in magazines and newspapers.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A file compression format mostly used for color and greyscale photographs.

(JPEG, NCI Thesaurus)

Then with a sudden impulsive gesture he plucked a photograph from his breast-pocket and threw it on the rustic table before us.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The associated very dim gas cloud remained unknown until the 1950s, when American astronomer Stewart Sharpless spotted it on photographs.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

“When you take a photograph, the information stored in pixels is generally limited to just three components – red, green, and blue,” said co-first author Tom Albrow-Owen.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)

When Hubble photographed the galaxy, astronomers expected to see a chaotic ball of stars formed through galaxies merging together.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There have been precious few sightings since, but indigenous wildlife rangers say they have photographed one of the nocturnal, ground-dwelling birds in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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

The group based its survey on such tools as photographs, tourist sightings, safari guides, cattle herders, and village chiefs.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)