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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
Longman-Thesaurus
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noun ADJ. old, recent | black-and-white, colour, coloured, sepia, tinted Tinted photographs were an early substitute for colour. | blurred, fuzzy, grainy, out of focus This photograph is out of focus. | faded | clear | sharp | excellent, good, great, lovely, stunning, superb, wonderful | (good) quality | glossy | framed | signed | studio | group, team | family | wedding | school | cover, magazine, newspaper, press The cover photograph of one magazine showed a dying soldier. | publicity | documentary | fashion | portrait-sized, postcard-sized | passport, passport-sized | facial Send a recent facial photograph of yourself with your application. | close-up | still Frame the subject in the video viewfinder as you would for a still photograph. | aerial, air, satellite | digital, polaroid | infrared | erotic, explicit, indecent, nude, obscene, pornographic, topless VERB + PHOTOGRAPH get, take Did you manage to get a photograph of the goal? I spent the day taking photographs of the city. | pose for | develop | blow up, enlarge | scan (in) I scanned in some photographs of the family to send to friends by email. | touch up The photograph has been touched up to conceal her double chin. | crop | mount I cropped the photograph and mounted it on some card. | publish | make The sun rising over the horizon would have made a good photograph. PHOTOGRAPH + VERB appear Her photograph appeared in all the papers. | depict sth, show sth | capture sth The photograph manages to capture the excitement of the occasion. PHOTOGRAPH + NOUN album | frame PREP. in a/the ~ The wing is assembled as shown in the photograph below. | ~ of An aerial photograph of the field shows clearly where the buildings were. PREP. photograph courtesy (of) … photograph courtesy Liverpool Evening News (= acknowledging permission to publish a photograph)ART
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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verbs
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.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + photograph
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.
photograph + NOUN
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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