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Photograph

noun

A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material. Synonyms: exposure, photo, pic, picture.

verb

(past & past part. photographed; pres. part. photographing)

Record on photographic film. Synonyms: shoot, snap. "She snapped a picture of the President"

Undergo being photographed in a certain way.

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"Photograph" Quotes from Famous Books

... be enough if we have...." When the door opened behind my back. I looked round negligently and hastily returned to the consideration of a shining photograph of the Dent du Midi. A very gracious figure of a girl was embracing the grim Miss Churchill, as a gracious girl should virginally salute a ...

— The Inheritors • Joseph Conrad

... engrossed with my brushes and canvas that I have been unconscious of you? What is that painted thing beside your own beautiful self? Do you think that because I must turn myself into a machine to make a photograph of your beauty, I am insensible to its charm? I am not a machine. I am a man; as you are a ...

— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright

... There is a photograph somewhere in an album of Lilly much as she must have looked that night. Her white organdie frock out charmingly around her, a fluted ruffle at the low neck forming fitting calyx for the fine upward flow of her high white chest into firm, smooth throat; the enormous puff sleeves of ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... letters; and the effect of shadows on an incised letter may be clearly observed by comparing 4 and 5, the former showing a drawing for an inscription in which the Serlio-Ross [14] alphabet was used as a basis for the letter forms, and the latter being a photograph of the same inscription, as cut in granite. It will be noted how much narrower the thin lines appear when defined only by shadow than in the drawing. The model used for the lettering on the frieze of the Boston Public Library, 7, which shows some interesting modern ...

— Letters and Lettering - A Treatise With 200 Examples • Frank Chouteau Brown

... thing is true by a painful process of reasoning. A woman knows a thing is so—because! She knows it thoroughly, too, from top to bottom. Whenever a woman looks at me I can feel her taking an X-ray photograph of the marrow ...

— The One Woman • Thomas Dixon

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