photo

plural photos

1. informalA photograph.

   Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

   2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist

2. informalA photo finish.

   By this stage, Goof was clearly warming to his theme and, as they flashed past the post together, he reported that it was a photo. "And I don't know or care who won the photo," he concluded.

   2005 June 28, “Racing diary: In the shake-up”, in The Telegraph

3. informalA digital picture of any kind.
4. informalPhotography

   Photo student in need of subjects.

   1981 February 7, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 14

present singular third person photos · participle present photoing · participle past photoed · past photoed

1. transitiveTo take a photograph of.

   1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=vQ7DKhq0ZckC&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&sig=hrMAoHDI9vAnq4RQwgFro_Lp24M He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.

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   [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=5kjheskJwVAC&pg=PA465&lpg=PA465&sig=_CY8N5ZLStxnOIlf_CNHhhBEPjA What fun to be photoed together, / What luck for a break so opportune. / Oh, what a lark / To be posed in the park / Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.

   Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

   2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=2nFEV20sE1AC&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&sig=8MxWTUwSXHcfah6pEaAnVLYaiL4