photo

See also: Photo and photo-

English

Etymology

Clipping of photograph

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊ.təʊ/, [ˈfəʊtʰəʊ]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊ.toʊ/, [ˈfŏʊɾoʊ]

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

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, 28 June, 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.

Derived terms

• astrophoto
• file photo
• photo paper, photopaper

Translations

photograph — see photograph

Verb

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?

Related terms

• photog
• photographer

Translations

to take a photograph

• Bulgarian: фотографи́рам (bg) (fotografíram), сни́мам (bg) (snímam)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 影 (jing²)

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 拍 (zh) (pāi)

• Dutch: fotograferen (nl)
• Esperanto: foti
• Finnish: valokuvata (fi), kuvata (fi)

• French: photographier (fr)
• Hebrew: צילם‎ (tsilém)
• Hindi: तसवीर लेना (tasvīr lenā)
• Italian: fotografare (it)
• Spanish: instantánea f
• Turkish: fotoğraf çekmek (tr)
• Volapük: fotografön, (older term, obsolete) fotogafön, (older term) litamagön

See also

• photo-
• photosensitive
• photosynthesis, photosynthesize
• photogenic
• photocell
• photo finish
• photo opportunity
• snapshot

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French

Etymology

Clipping of photographie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.to/, /fo.to/

• Audio (France)

  (file)

• Audio (France)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -o

Noun

photo f (plural photos)

1. photo

Derived terms

• appareil photo
• ne pas y avoir photo

 

Further reading

• “photo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).