photograph

US: /ˈfoʊtəˌɡɹæf/
UK: /fˈə‍ʊtəɡɹˌæf/


English Vietnamese dictionary


photograph /'foutəgrɑ:f/
  • danh từ
    • ảnh, bức ảnh
    • ngoại động từ
      • chụp ảnh (ai, cái gì)
      • nội động từ
        • chụp ảnh
          • I always photograph badly: tôi chụp ảnh bao giờ cũng xấu
          • to photograph well: ăn ảnh

      Advanced English dictionary


      noun, verb
      + noun
      (also photo) a picture that is made by using a camera that has a film sensitive to light inside it: aerial / satellite photographs + colour photographs + His photograph appeared in the local paper. + Please enclose a recent passport-sized photograph of yourself. + I spent the day taking photographs of the city.
      Help Note: The usual phrase in AmE is take pictures.
      + verb
      1 to take a photograph of sb/sth: [VN] He has photographed some of the world's most beautiful women. + a beautifully photographed book (= with good photographs in it) + [VN-ADJ] She refused to be photographed nude. + [VN -ing] They were photographed playing with their children.
      2 [V] ~ well, badly, etc. to look or not look attractive in photographs: Some people just don't photograph well.

      Thesaurus dictionary


      n.
      1 snapshot, print, picture, slide, transparency; negative, positive, Colloq photo, snap, shot, pic (pl. pix):
      Heinrich has taken some marvellous photographs of the children.
      v.
      2 take a picture (of), shoot, film, take, Colloq snap:
      He photographed Jennifer holding her kitten.

      Collocation dictionary


      ADJ.

      old, recent | black-and-white, colour, coloured, sepia, tinted
      Tinted photographs were an early substitute for colour.
      | blurred, fuzzy, grainy, out of focus
      This photograph is out of focus.
      | faded | clear | sharp | excellent, good, great, lovely, stunning, superb, wonderful | (good) quality | glossy | framed | signed | studio | group, team | family | wedding | school | cover, magazine, newspaper, press
      The cover photograph of one magazine showed a dying soldier.
      | publicity | documentary | fashion | portrait-sized, postcard-sized | passport, passport-sized | facial
      Send a recent facial photograph of yourself with your application.
      | close-up | still
      Frame the subject in the video viewfinder as you would for a still photograph.
      | aerial, air, satellite | digital, polaroid | infrared | erotic, explicit, indecent, nude, obscene, pornographic, topless

      VERB + PHOTOGRAPH

      get, take
      Did you manage to get a photograph of the goal? I spent the day taking photographs of the city.
      | pose for | develop | blow up, enlarge | scan (in)
      I scanned in some photographs of the family to send to friends by email.
      | touch up
      The photograph has been touched up to conceal her double chin.
      | crop | mount
      I cropped the photograph and mounted it on some card.
      | publish | make
      The sun rising over the horizon would have made a good photograph.

      PHOTOGRAPH + VERB

      appear
      Her photograph appeared in all the papers.
      | depict sth, show sth | capture sth
      The photograph manages to capture the excitement of the occasion.

      PHOTOGRAPH + NOUN

      album | frame

      PREP.

      in a/the ~
      The wing is assembled as shown in the photograph below.
      | ~ of
      An aerial photograph of the field shows clearly where the buildings were.

      PREP.

      photograph courtesy (of) …
      photograph courtesy Liverpool Evening News (= acknowledging permission to publish a photograph)

      More information about ART WORKS

      ART WORKS:

      of art a piece/work of art
      Michelangelo's Pietà is a magnificent work of art.

      collect ~
      She collects Jacobean portraits.

      display, exhibit, show ~
      The works will be displayed in the new wing of the museum.

      ~ be (put) on display/exhibition/show ~ go on display/exhibition/show
      paintings put on show for the first time The photographs are on exhibition until the end of September.

      house ~
      An annexe was built to house the sculptures.

      a series of ~
      a series of paintings by Van Gogh

      a collection/exhibition of ~
      an exhibition of early 20th century French masterpieces

      an art/photographic/photography exhibition
      The open art exhibition will allow new artists to exhibit their work.

      by ~
      a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth


      Concise English dictionary


      photographs|photographed|photographing'fəʊtəgræf /-grɑːf
      noun
      +a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
      verb
      +record on photographic film
      +undergo being photographed in a certain way