photograph

plural photographs

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

   The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.

   1975 May 4, Dale Harris, “Merce Cunningham”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024

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   A photograph showing a column of tenodd cars with black registration plates moving along an empty highway on their way to Subotica, […]

   1994 February 21, Dejan Anastasijevic, “VREME: The Front Page: The Departure”, in TOL, archived from the original on 28 Oct 2020

   Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

   2012 March 28, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106

present singular third person photographs · participle present photographing · participle past photographed · past photographed

1. intransitivetransitiveTo take a photograph (of).

   He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.

   1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing

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   The boy who made headlines when he was photographed hugging an officer during a 2014 protest against police brutality is missing after his family’s SUV plunged 100 feet off a coastal highway in California, officials said Wednesday.

   2018 March 28, Melissa Gray, “Boy in viral hug photo missing after family’s car plunges off cliff”, in CNN

   As the game worlds we explore have become more beautiful, players have become more interested in photographing them and sharing the results.

   2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber, “Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?”, in The Guardian

2. figurativelytransitiveTo fix permanently in the memory etc.

   He is photographed on my mind.

   1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands

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   The scene and its surroundings were photographed on my memory.

   1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12

3. intransitiveTo appear in a photograph.

   She photographs well. The camera loves her.

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   He told me that he liked Dolls Kill just fine—its clothes photographed well and he always wore them to Coachella—but attending this event was basically work for him.

   2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2021