different between phot vs photograph

English

Etymology 1

Coined by André Blondel in 1921. See photo-.

Noun

phot (plural phots)

1. A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).

Etymology 2

Clipping of photograph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

phot (third-person singular simple present phots, present participle photting, simple past and past participle photted)

1. (informal) to photograph

Anagrams

• Poth, hopt, toph

English

Etymology

photo- +? -graph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.t?.?????f/, [?f??.t???.??????f]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fo?.t?.???æf/, [?f??.??.????æf]

Noun

photograph (plural photographs)

1. A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• photograph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)

1. (transitive) and (intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
   • 1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing

     He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
   • 1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands

     He is photographed on my mind.

3. (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.

Translations

Anagrams

• phagotroph