PHOTOGRAPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photograph mean? 

• PHOTOGRAPH (noun)
  The noun PHOTOGRAPH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPH used as a noun is very rare.

• PHOTOGRAPH (verb)
  The verb PHOTOGRAPH has 2 senses:

1. record on photographic film

2. undergo being photographed in a certain way

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAPH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

exposure; photo; photograph; pic; picture

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"):

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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)

• PHOTOGRAPH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they photograph    ... he / she / it photographs   
Past simple: photographed   
Past participle: photographed   
-ing form: photographing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Record on photographic film

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

photograph; shoot; snap

Context example:

She snapped a picture of the President

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

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Children photograph well

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)

 Context examples 

And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.

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

‘That is my own photograph,’ she said. ‘He sent it to me in that state, with his curse, upon my wedding morning.’

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

This is the first one that actually has been photographed as it is dying.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

Researchers first collected a series of photographs on a speckled background pattern.

(Seeing Shock Waves, EARTH OBSERVATORY)

Though astronomers have photographed more than a dozen exoplanets, HR 8799 is so-far the only multi-planet solar system to have had its picture taken.

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This would be an ideal time for a sojourn into the country and to take artistic photographs along the way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Their absolute steepness is indicated in the photograph which I took over the stony desert.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He forgave everybody, even the cub reporter who had painted him red and to whom he now granted a full page with specially posed photographs.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Near the edge of the polar storm is a large, compact methane-ice cloud, which is sometimes bright enough to be photographed by amateur astronomers.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

The photographs, taken by engineers on the ship, only recently came to light when they were sold at auction.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)