photo

Shortened form of photograph.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊ.təʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊ.t̬oʊ/

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photo (plural photos)

1. (informal) A photograph.
   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

     Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

2. (informal) A photo finish.
   • 2005, 28 June, Racing diary: In the shake-up (in The Telegraph)

     By this stage, Goof was clearly warming to his theme and, as they flashed past the post together, he reported that it was a photo. "And I don't know or care who won the photo," he concluded.

• astrophoto
• file photo
• photo paper, photopaper

photo (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)

1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
   • [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter

     What fun to be photoed together, / What luck for a break so opportune. / Oh, what a lark / To be posed in the park / Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.

   • 1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine

     He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

     Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

• photog
• photographer

• photo-
• photosensitive
• photosynthesis, photosynthesize
• photogenic
• photocell
• photo finish
• photo opportunity
• snapshot

Clipping of photographie

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.to/, /fo.to/

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• Rhymes: -o

photo f (plural photos)

1. photo

• “photo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).