photo
[verb]
Synonyms: photograph, shoot

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Related Idioms: take a photo (of)

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English Thesaurus: break, smash, snap, split, fracture, ...

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I. pho‧to S3 W3 /ˈfəʊtəʊ $ ˈfoʊtoʊ/ noun (plural photos) [countable] informal
[Word Family: noun: photo, photograph, photographer, photography; adjective: photogenic, photographic; verb: photograph]
[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: photograph]
a photograph
photo of
I’ll send Mom a photo of Sammy.
Can you take a photo of me and Rachel?

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II. pho‧to‧graph¹ S2 W2 /ˈfəʊtəɡrɑːf $ ˈfoʊtəɡræf/ (also photo informal) noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: photo, photograph, photographer, photography; adjective: photogenic, photographic; verb: photograph]
[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: photo- + -graph 'something written or drawn' (from Greek graphein 'to write')]
a picture obtained by using a camera and film that is sensitive to light:
a colour photograph
a black and white photograph
photograph of
I wish I had a photograph of Thomas.
He took a photograph of the hotel.
Tim was looking through an old photograph album (=book in which you put photographs).
Did you see Leo’s photograph (=a photograph of Leo) in the newspaper?

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

photo- /fəʊtəʊ, -tə $ foʊtoʊ, -tə/ prefix technical
[Language: Greek; Origin: phos 'light']

1. relating to light:
photosensitive paper (=paper that changes when light touches it)

2. relating to photography:
photo-journalism (=the use of photographs in reporting news)

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photo
noun
ADJ. old, recent | black-and-white, colour | clear | excellent, good, great | (good) quality | glossy | framed | signed His most treasured possession is a signed photo of his footballing hero.
group, team | family | wedding | school | cover, newspaper, press | passport, publicity, security | still | action The annual has a good range of features and colour action photos.
aerial, air | digital, polaroid | nude, pornographic, topless
VERB + PHOTO get, take I got some great photos of the party. Can I have my photo taken with you?
pose for posing for a group photo
develop I can't wait till the photos have been developed.
blow up, enlarge | crop | mount | publish | make The sun rising over the horizon would have made a good photo.
PHOTO + NOUN album | frame | call, opportunity, session, shoot The press followed the president round the hospital, waiting for a photo opportunity.
journalism, journalist | processing | booth We found a photo booth on the station.
story | caption
PREP. in a/the ~ Tell me who everyone is in the photo.
~ of a photo of my son Edmund

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

photo

take a photo
We all took photos of each other.
get a photo (=take one successfully)
Did you get some good photos in Greece?
a colour photo
Send us a colour photo of yourself.
a black-and-white photo
There is a black-and-white photo of Sly Stone on the wall of their flat.
a digital photo
a framed photo
A small framed photo of his girlfriend sits on a bookcase.
a signed photo
I managed to get a signed photo of her.
a wedding photo
Shall I show you our wedding photos?
a photo album (=a book in which you put photos)
She took every picture of her ex-husband out of the family photo album.

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break verb [transitive] to damage something and make it separate into pieces, for example by dropping it or hitting it:
Careful you don’t break the chair.
He broke his leg.
smash verb [transitive] to break something with a lot of force:
A policeman smashed his camera.
snap verb [transitive] to break something into two pieces, making a loud noise – used especially about long thin objects:
He snapped the sticks in two.
split verb [transitive] to separate something into two pieces along a straight line:
Using a sharp knife, split the melon in half.
fracture verb [transitive] to damage a bone, especially so that a line appears on the surface:
I fell over and fractured my wrist.
tear /teə $ ter/ verb [transitive] to damage paper or cloth by pulling it so that it separates into pieces:
She tore up the letter and put it in the bin.
I tore my jacket.
photograph a picture taken using a camera:
Visitors are not allowed to take photographs inside the museum.
our wedding photographs
photo informal a photograph:
a way of displaying your digital photos
Do you want me to take your photo?
picture a photograph of someone or something:
I saw her picture in the paper the other day.
This is a really good picture of Sarah.
Can I take your picture?
shot informal a photograph – used especially by people who often take photographs:
I got some great shots of Mount Fuji.
It's a lovely shot.
print a photograph that has been printed on photographic paper:
a set of 4 by 6 inch prints

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

photograph a picture taken using a camera:
Visitors are not allowed to take photographs inside the museum.
our wedding photographs
photo informal a photograph:
a way of displaying your digital photos
Do you want me to take your photo?
picture a photograph of someone or something:
I saw her picture in the paper the other day.
This is a really good picture of Sarah.
Can I take your picture?
snap British English informal, snapshot especially American English a photograph that you take quickly and without thinking carefully about how it will look, for example when you are on holiday:
Patrick showed me his holiday snaps.
She showed me a snapshot of her three children.
shot informal a photograph – used especially by people who often take photographs:
I got some great shots of Mount Fuji.
It's a lovely shot.
print a photograph that has been printed on photographic paper:
a set of 4 by 6 inch prints
take a photograph
He wanted to take a photograph of me.
get a photograph (=take one successfully)
I got some brilliant photographs of the desert.
a colour photograph
The book is fully illustrated with colour photographs.
a black-and-white photograph
a digital photograph
a framed photograph
On the desk was a framed photograph of a woman.
a signed photograph
He keeps a signed photograph of Bill Clinton in his office.
a wedding photograph
Your wedding photographs will keep the memories of the big day alive for you.
an aerial photograph (=one taken from a plane)
Aerial photographs can be used to locate archaeological sites.
faded
All her life she kept a faded photograph of him in his army uniform.
blurred
He was shown a blurred photograph, taken from a moving car.
grainy (=with a rough, not sharp, appearance)
I stared at the grainy newspaper photograph, searching for my mother.
sepia (=used about a black and white photograph that has shades of brown, in a way that is typical of old photographs)
an 1854 sepia photograph of Jonathan Pickering, the company founder
a photograph album (=a book in which you put photographs)
Mama kept a photograph album full of pictures of her family.

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PHOTO
Photograph

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