different between photo vs screenshot

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

Translations

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

screen +? shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skri?n.??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?skri?n.??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

screenshot (plural screenshots)

1. (computing) An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.

   Synonyms: screencast, screen capture, screen dump, screengrab, screenie, screencap

Translations

See also

• bullshot

Verb

screenshot (third-person singular simple present screenshots, present participle screenshotting, simple past and past participle screenshotted)

1. (computing, transitive) To take a screenshot of something.

Translations

Further reading

• screenshot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English screenshot.

Noun

screenshot m (plural screenshot)

1. (computing) screenshot (image of computer screen output)

   Synonym: schermata

Further reading

• screenshot in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English screenshot.

Noun

screenshot m (plural screenshots)

1. (computing) screenshot (image of computer screen output)

   Synonyms: captura de ecrã, captura de tela, print, Print Screen

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:screenshot.