- photograph
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} (also photo) nounADJECTIVE▪ old, recent▪ early, vintage▪ black-and-white, colour/color, sepia▪
We looked through her old black-and-white photographs.
▪ blurred, blurry, fuzzy, grainy, out-of-focus▪a fuzzy black-and-white photograph
▪The newspaper published a grainy photograph of her.
▪This photograph is out of focus.
▪ faded▪ clear, sharp▪The photographs were clear and sharp.
▪ still▪ action▪The book is illustrated with 96 action photographs.
▪ beautiful, excellent, good, great, lovely, stunning, superb, wonderful▪ good-quality, high-quality, high-resolution▪ glossy▪ framed▪ signed▪ studio▪ group, team (esp. BrE)▪ portrait▪ family▪ wedding▪ school (esp. BrE) (usually school picture in AmE)▪ cover, magazine, newspaper, press▪The cover photograph of one magazine showed a dying soldier.
▪ publicity▪ documentary▪ archival (AmE), archive (BrE)▪ historic, historical, period▪ famous▪the famous photograph of Che Guevara
▪ fashion▪ passport, passport-sized▪ enlarged▪ close-up▪ still▪Frame the subject in the video viewfinder as you would for a still photograph.
▪ aerial, satellite▪satellite photographs of Beijing
▪ digital, Polaroid™▪ infrared▪ indecent (BrE, law), pornographic▪He admitted offences of possessing indecent photographs of children.
VERB + PHOTOGRAPH▪ get, shoot, take▪I got some great photographs of the party.
▪Can I have my photograph taken with you?
▪I spent the day taking photographs of the city.
▪ compose▪ pose for▪We posed for a group photograph.
▪ make▪The sun rising over the horizon would have made a good photograph.
▪ copy, develop, print▪I can't wait till the photographs have been printed.
▪I prefer to print my digital photographs.
▪ blow up, enlarge▪A photograph of them is blown up to fill two full pages.
▪editing software that enables you to enlarge and crop photographs
▪Click on individual photographs to enlarge them.
▪ touch up▪The photograph has been touched up to conceal her scar.
▪ crop▪ mount▪I cropped the photograph and mounted it on some card.
▪ scan, scan in▪I scanned in some photographs of the family to send to friends by email.
▪She scans each photograph into her computer.
▪ download, upload▪Upload your photographs to one of these sites.
▪ post▪I'm learning how to post photographs on my blog.
▪ store▪the photographs stored on the memory card
▪ publish, release▪The next day they published photographs of the kidnappers.
▪a couple of photographs released by news agencies
▪ feature▪The first issue featured a photograph of Martha Graham on the cover.
PHOTOGRAPH + VERB▪ appear▪Her photograph appeared in all the papers.
▪ depict sth, document sth, illustrate sth, reveal sth, show sth▪ capture sth▪The photograph manages to capture the excitement of the occasion.
PHOTOGRAPH + NOUN▪ album▪ framePREPOSITION▪ in a/the photograph▪The wing is assembled as shown in the photograph below.
▪Tell me who everyone is in the photograph.
▪ photograph of▪An aerial photograph of the field shows clearly where the buildings were.
▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}a photograph of my son Edmund
verbPhotograph is used with these nouns as the object: ↑model
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
