photograph

«photograph» in Mova's school dictionary: a picture made with a camera — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (photograph, photographs); verb (photograph, photographs, photographed, photographing)

meaning for a pupil

1) A photograph is a picture made with a camera. tree →

2) To photograph something is to take a picture of it with a camera. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life people take photographs with phones and cameras; in history lessons old photographs are sources that show the past; in science pupils photograph experiments to record results. In online safety lessons ask before photographing someone, and do not share photographs of yourself with strangers. Phrases: take a photograph, school photograph, in the photograph, photograph album.

examples

• Mum took a photograph of us on the beach. tree →
• This old photograph shows my great-grandad. tree →
• Ask before you take someone's photograph. tree →
• We photographed the plants every day to see them grow. tree →
• Our school photograph is on the wall. tree →
• Who is the girl in the photograph? tree →
• You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in “Northern Races of Central Australia,” by Messrs. tree →

note

Shortened: photo (plural photos, not «photoes»). «Take a photograph» (not «make»). Stress changes: PHO-to-graph, pho-TOG-ra-pher, pho-to-GRAPH-ic. «Ph» sounds like «f». Photographs can be edited, so they do not always show the truth.

In the corpora

• A speed camera photographs cars going over the limit, and the driver must pay a fine and may get points on their licence.
• Photographing children and animals from their eye level makes the picture feel closer and more natural.
• The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce in France around 1826 or 1827, needed hours or even days of exposure.
• Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down.
• Food in adverts is styled and photographed to look perfect; real food is usually smaller and messier.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «photograph» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.