different between photo vs daguerreotype

English

Etymology

Clipping of photograph

Pronunciation

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

Noun

photo (plural photos)

1. (informal) A photograph.
2. (informal) A photo finish.
   • 2005, 28 June, Racing diary: In the shake-up (in The Telegraph) [1]

     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.

Derived terms

• astrophoto
• file photo
• photo paper, photopaper

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Verb

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 [2]

     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 [3]

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

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [4]

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

Related terms

• photog
• photographer

Translations

See also

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

French

Etymology

Clipping of photographie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.to/, /fo.to/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

photo f (plural photos)

1. photo

Derived terms

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?????.??.ta?p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?????.o?.ta?p/, /d?????.?.ta?p/

Noun

daguerreotype (plural daguerreotypes)

1. An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors.

Related terms

• daguerreotyper
• daguerreotypy

Translations

Verb

daguerreotype (third-person singular simple present daguerreotypes, present participle daguerreotyping, simple past and past participle daguerreotyped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).

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