different between photograph vs tintype

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.

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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

English

Etymology

tin +? type

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?nta?p/

Noun

tintype (plural tintypes)

1. An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 993:

     They'll show you tintypes of the kids more often than not, hell, they love em chavalitos.

Derived terms

• not on your tintype

Verb

tintype (third-person singular simple present tintypes, present participle tintyping, simple past and past participle tintyped)

1. (transitive) To produce a tintype image of.