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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x1)
- This old photograph shows my great-grandad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x2)
- Ask before you take someone's photograph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x3)
- We photographed the plants every day to see them grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x4)
- Our school photograph is on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/#x5)
- Who is the girl in the photograph? [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/15/)
- [Photographing children and animals from their eye level makes the picture feel closer and more natural.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/13/)
- [The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce in France around 1826 or 1827, needed hours or even days of exposure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/14/)
- [Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/19/)
- [Food in adverts is styled and photographed to look perfect; real food is usually smaller and messier.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «photograph» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photograph/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.