photo

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of photograph

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊ.təʊ/, [ˈfəʊtʰəʊ]
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ.toʊ/, [ˈfŏʊɾoʊ]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊtəʊ

Noun[edit]

photo (plural photos)

  1. (informal) A photograph.
    • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
      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.
  2. (informal) A photo finish.
    • 2005 June 28, “Racing diary: In the shake-up”, in The Telegraph‎[1]:
      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.
  3. (informal) A digital picture of any kind.

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Descendants[edit]

  • → Hausa: hṑtō

Translations[edit]

photograph — see photograph

Verb[edit]

photo (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)

  1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
    • [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [2]
      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.
    • 1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine [3]
      He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.
    • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [4]
      Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of photographie.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /fɔ.to/, /fo.to/
  • Audio (France)(file)
  • Audio (France)(file)
  • Rhymes: -o

Noun[edit]

photo f (plural photos)

  1. photo

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