请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 photo
释义

photon.adj.

Brit. /ˈfəʊtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈfoʊdoʊ/
Forms: 1800s– photo, 1800s– photo. (with point).
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: photograph n.; photographic adj.
Etymology: Shortened < photograph n. (originally as a graphic abbreviation: see note); partly also (especially in use as adjective) shortened < photographic adj. Compare German Foto, †Photo (1859).The form photo. (with point) used in early instances of some compounds may represent a graphic abbreviation of photographic adj. rather than photograph n.
A. n.
1. A photograph.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [noun]
photograph1839
sun picture1839
light picture1846
photogene1851
photogram1857
photo1860
photographeme1864
photie1931
1860 Queen Victoria Let. 24 Oct. in Dearest Child (1964) 275 She is waiting to know..about the photo.
1861 D. G. Rossetti Let. 11 July (1965) II. 411 The only way I know about Scott's photos, is to send you a set I have.
1866 Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 30 Nov. They are copies from photos and ambrotypes.
1893 Romanes in Life 313 The photos..make me realise what splendid work the buildings are.
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xii. 224 Why, your name would be in the Roll of Honour, and your photo in the Daily Mirror.
1960 S. Unwin Truth about Publisher i. i. 23 I still prize the little album of photos taken with his old Frena camera.
1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! vii. 72 He guddled in a box of snapshots for a particular photo he wanted to show me.
2001 A. M. Jones Last Year's River 88 She placed a framed photo in my hand: a small black-and-white snapshot squared in gilt.
2. In horse racing, etc.: = photo finish n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > finish
come-in1856
blanket finish1934
photo finish1935
photo1946
1937 N.Y. Times 3 Jan. v. 7/3 Kindred Spirit survived a hair-raising finish to take a photo decision at 18–1 under Jimmy Start.]
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Oct. 15 War Trophy..closed with a belated rush..to earn the photo.
1976 Scottish Daily Express 23 Dec. 10/6 Brigadier General Preston Gilbride's ex-Irish colt..collared Gambling Prince..smoothly in the closing stages to win by four lengths..with the photo showing Bronson to have held O'Conna out of third spot.
1995 Racing Post 14 July 24/2 A promising debut in a big field at Newbury, and beaten only in a photo by a back-to-form Boldina Bay.
B. adj.
Photographic.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [adjective]
photogenic1835
photographic1839
heliographic1840
photographical1842
photo1878
1878 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 24 Aug. Davidson Brothers step to the front with a big reduction in the prices of photo. work.
1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 271 I have written so often to the various year books and photo papers on this subject.
1950 N.Y. Times 20 Apr. 1/1 The photo industry was subjected to heavier wartime increases than the others under consideration.
1991 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 45 35 It has not been unknown for me to superimpose photo images of its two slightly variant title-pages to show precisely how they differ.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
photo album n.
ΚΠ
1865 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 15 Aug. (advt.) 5,000 photo. albums, all sizes.
1890 F. W. O. Ward 'Twixt Kiss & Lip (ed. 3) 819 (title) Written in a lady's photo album.
1988 Pract. Photogr. Apr. 14/1 Photo albums can cause your snapshots to rot.
2002 N. Minhas Chapatti or Chips? xii. 142 The three girls sat on the double bed with a bottle of red wine, a photo album of their school days, and a tampon spliff.
photo frame n.
ΚΠ
1877 Decatur (Illinois) Weekly Republican 8 Nov. 4/6 (advt.) 2 black walnut photo. frames.
1897 Private Life of Queen ii. 12 The fascinating confusion of books, photo-frames, and bibelots.
1950 Good Housek. Dec. 206/2 (advt.) Photo frames, made by nation's top manufacturer, have expensive look.
2001 Navy News Sept. 39/1 Helen was presented with a ‘leaving gift’ of a silver photo frame.
photo lab n.
ΚΠ
1919 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 27 Aug. 6/7 (advt.) Girl, to work mornings only. Passman Photo Lab., 13½ S. 3rd.
1956 Life 2 Apr. 48/1 Standing on a New York El platform.., Al Asnis of Life's photo lab saw a man writhing on the sidewalk below.
2003 Star (Sheffield) (Nexis) 10 June His company reckons to be the only photolab in the country to make such an investment in film processing technology.
photo laboratory n.
ΚΠ
1867 Times 23 Sept. 1/3 (advt.) Twelve cartes de visite for 2s. 6d...—Langham Photo-Laboratory, No. 312, Regent-street.
1912 Washington Post 9 June 19/8 (advt.) Star Photo Laboratory. 1111 Pa. ave., near Hotel Raleigh.
1990 R. Solchanyk & I. Hvat in P. Ramet Catholicism & Politics Communist Societies iii. 60 They made use of an underground printing press and photo laboratory for publication of ‘anti-Soviet falsifications and libels’.
photo-stand n.
ΚΠ
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 27 Odds and ends in the way of photo-stands [etc.].
1965 Science 23 Apr. 565/3 (advt.) The total cost of the Photoscope and Photostand including the Polaroid Automatic 100 Land Camera.
1999 Guardian (Nexis) 26 July 8 There was a photostand across the street. I took five or six shots, then waited for the people to come out.
C2.
photo booth n. a booth used for taking photographs; (in later use) spec. an automated, self-service booth, usually producing (a set of) small photographs suitable for use in passports or the like.
ΚΠ
1937 Los Angeles Times 28 Feb. (Rotogravure section) 1 (caption) Atop the grandstand is the photo booth, from which photos of the finish are made.
1940 Marion (Ohio) Star 23 Sept. 8/5 Marriage licenses were granted..to Dwight Douglas, laborer..and Dorothy Thomas, photo booth operator.
1973 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 31 July 12/3 Popcorn and soft drinks will also be on sale, and a photo booth will be set up.
2001 What Digital Camera Aug. 100/3 This convergence and connectivity has spread to digital photo booths being installed in public places like convenience stores, record shops and arcades.
photo ID n. a form of identification incorporating or consisting of a photograph of the holder.
ΚΠ
1953 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 9 Oct. 7/1 (advt.) Photo ID bracelets make a wonderful gift.
1981 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 2 July 11 Polaroid had approached us a few years before to put a photo ID on the back of our Master Charge cards.
2002 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Aug. 16/1 Photo IDs may soon become a thing of the past, replaced by biometric identifiers—things like fingerprints and scans of eyes.
photo ink n. a type of (esp. coloured) ink designed for printing digital photographs from a computer.
ΚΠ
1996 PR Presswire (Nexis) 7 Aug. In addition to its unique Photo Inks, Canon also now offers optional Neon Ink cartridges which provide true fluorescent colors.
2004 PC Mag. (Nexis) 17 May d1 The other great photo printer in this lot..uses eight ink colors, but instead of green and red, it adds gray photo ink and another shade of black.
photo librarian n. a person who works in a photo library.
ΚΠ
1943 Times 28 Oct. 1/7 (advt.) Junior required to train as Photo Librarian.
2002 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 7 Mar. 2 We've also seen her..as the determined photo librarian battling to save treasures of the past in Stephen Poliakoff's extraordinary Shooting the Past.
photo library n. a collection or archive of photographs.
ΚΠ
1900 Atlanta Constit. 22 Apr. 9/4 (advt.) Photo Library Paste in tubes..25c.]
1939 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 24 Nov. 11/7 Operation of teletype printer equipment with news wire operators and copy boys, the London cable printer and the photo library is also shown.
2001 Trav. Afr. Autumn 106/3 A photolibrary covers life throughout Africa, not just in its main tourist zones; and a Facts and Figures page reveals Africa by numbers.
photo magazine n. a magazine containing many photographs.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > magazine > pictorial
pictorial1844
picture paper1853
illustrated1879
picture magazine1895
photo magazine1903
rotogravure1914
roto1920
photo-novelette1963
1903 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 25 Dec. 8/1 The men..surprised Mr. Faries by presenting him with a fountain pen and one year's subscription to a photo magazine.
1951 Public Opinion Q. 15 116/1 Its results in part were published in the Picture Post, a weekly photo magazine, in attractive articles.
1996 Sky Mag. Oct. 55/2 You want to raise your profile... You pose nude, preferably in Black & White, the glossy Australian photo magazine.
photo op n. (also occasionally photo opp) colloquial = photo opportunity n.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > journalism > [noun] > opportunity to take photographs
photo opportunity1952
photo op1981
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > [noun] > photo opportunity
photo opportunity1952
photo op1981
1981 Washington Post 26 Apr. 10/4 The White House..is already a flurry of rumors about ‘surprise’ photo ops for Reagan's 70th birthday.
1987 Times 9 May 24/8 She..provided photo-opps, usually wearing tight jeans, in the garden of her Long Island house.
2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) iii. 57 I've just come from the Café de Paris where I've been presenting a cable TV award and I'm down here for the photo op.
photo opportunity n. originally U.S. the opportunity to take an interesting photograph; spec. a (usually prearranged) opportunity for press and television photographers to take photographs of a celebrity, politician, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > journalism > [noun] > opportunity to take photographs
photo opportunity1952
photo op1981
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > [noun] > photo opportunity
photo opportunity1952
photo op1981
1952 Los Angeles Times 18 July ii. 2 (headline) Beach offers scores of photo opportunities.
1969 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Aug. 27/1 Queen depart airport through V.I.P. lounge. Pool photo opportunity.
1974 D. Rather & G. P. Gates Palace Guard iii. xx. 242 Photographers and reporters already had been alerted..that the ‘photo opportunity’ would be coming off momentarily.
1990 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News 11 Mar. (Arts & Books Suppl.) 5/1 In recent decades, meanwhile, many politicians have been turning themselves into entertainers, posing for photo opportunities while they avoid taking stands in public.
1994 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 4 Dec. a1/5 The plane made two sweeps along the east side of DIA, giving passengers on both sides postcard-like photo opportunities.
photo portrait n. a portrait in the form of or based on a photograph.
ΚΠ
1860 Trans. New Hampsh. State Agric. Soc. 65 Some very fine specimens of photographs, ambrotypes and photo-portraits.
1888 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 9 Oct. 6/4 For best water color finished photo portrait, $2 1st, 1 2d.
1910 N.Y. Times 21 Aug. c2/2 She takes with her a fine photo-portrait, which is the Duke's gift, and wherever she stops this picture is seen on her dressing table.
2000 E. L. Rasor Winston Churchill ii. 484 The famous Karsh photo-portrait, the occasion being a visit to Ottawa by Churchill in 1941.
photo session n. a prearranged session in which photographs of a person or group are taken, usually for publication.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > [noun] > photographic session
photo session1946
photocall1958
photo shoot1974
1946 Wellsboro (Pa.) Gaz. 27 June 1/2 Woodin..said there would be a ‘Photo session’ at the Bache during the day.
1968 Times 20 May 14/3 The woman's editor of The Times strenuously denied charges of frivolity while her opposite number on the Mirror supervised a photo session craftily combining fashion and cheesecake.
2002 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 106/2 Try as they may to vamp it up for a Vanity Fair photo session, the pair can't help but buck the teenage vixenette trend.
photo shoot n. = photo session n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > [noun] > photographic session
photo session1946
photocall1958
photo shoot1974
1974 La Verne (Calif.) Leader 7 Nov. 25th annual Death Valley Encampment, featuring tours, hikes, photo shoots, modern and square dancing, campfire socials, [etc.].
1982 Times 5 July 17/1 (advt.) Efficient, organized PA secretary for creative chief at leading advertising company. Dealing with everything on the creative side including photo-shoots.
2003 Art Rev. May 74/2 After the photo shoot, Mollino would retouch the Polaroids.
photo spread n. a series of photographs covering several columns or pages of a magazine or newspaper, esp. one on two facing pages.
ΚΠ
1943 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 1 Oct. Life's current photo spread of MGM biggies shows every section of the movie industry, except its brains—the writers.
1976 New Musical Express 31 July 14/2 I had arrived early to be sure I'd secure a seat. It looked like a Rock Scene photospread come to life.
2004 Australian (Nexis) 26 Jan. 19 Blake is pals with Grammy-winning singer-songwriter John Mayer, has signed with IMG Models and featured in a 10-page photo spread with GQ.
photo-story n. a story with accompanying photographs; (in early use also occasionally) a story told in photographic form, a film.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > story with photographs
photo-story1913
photo-novelette1963
1913 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily Times 20 May The [moving] pictures include the following: ‘For the Honor of the Family’, a Vitagraph drama;..‘The Hospital Baby’, a photo story by the Essanay players; [etc.].
1913 Indianapolis Sunday Star 25 May 6/4 (advt.) The ‘Photo Story of a Pathfinder’ contains many interesting illustrations... We will send you a copy upon request.
1940 War Illustr. 19 Jan. 627 (heading) Photo-story of the life and death of a U-boat.
1992 PIC Aug. 23 Working on her photography in the late '40s, she succeeded in getting a major photostory published in the London-based ‘Picture Post’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

photov.

Brit. /ˈfəʊtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈfoʊdoʊ/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle photoed, photo'd;
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: photo n.; photograph v.
Etymology: Either < photo n. or shortened < photograph v.
Chiefly colloquial.
transitive. To take a photograph of; to represent photographically.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > photograph [verb (transitive)]
photograph1839
take1839
photogenize1841
photographize1841
to fire off1860
photo1865
1865 A. P. Black Hundred Days in East liii. 504 I heard of no instance of a Turk being engaged in photography; this, however, does not prevent him from having both himself and the fair inmates of the harem photoed.
1870 T. Carlyle Let. to Anderson 20 Mar. No mask that has it not..can be accepted to engrave from or be thought worth photoing.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat xviii. 291 We had no objection to being photo'd full-length.
1940 Lima (Ohio) News 9 Jan. 3/1 The lions literally mobbed the car—we photoed as many as nine at a time within ten feet of the camera.
1973 A. Behrend Samarai Affair xi. 109 O.K. sarge. Do we..wait till you've had him photoed?
1998 Time 9 Nov. 118/2 The way they photoed it didn't show my lower half.

Derivatives

ˈphotoed adj.
ΚΠ
1868 D. G. Rossetti Let. 21 Feb. (1965) II. 653 I shall be anxious to have a set of his admirable photo'd drawings.
1924 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 24 Apr. 12/8 When there's a picture he'll enjoy I often take my little boy. And he will sit entranced to see The photoed pomp and pageantry.
1990 M. van Duyn Near Changes ii. 25 Albums of past journeys and photoed friendships.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> see also

also refers to : photo-comb. form
<
n.adj.1860v.1865
see also
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/24 7:25:53