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# photograph

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

«photograph» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A photograph is a picture made with a camera. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#m1)
2. To photograph something is to take a picture of it with a camera. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x1)
- This old photograph shows my great-grandad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x2)
- Ask before you take someone's photograph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x3)
- We photographed the plants every day to see them grow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x4)
- Our school photograph is on the wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x5)
- Who is the girl in the photograph? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x6)
- You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in “Northern Races of Central Australia,” by Messrs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x7)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «photograph» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«photograph» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/photograph.html) on Mova free.