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pho·tog·ra·phy
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- pronunciation:
- f
ta
gr
fi
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
part of speech: |
noun |
definition: |
the art or practice of taking and making photographs.
Her interest in photography started when she got a camera for her tenth birthday. |
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broader categories that include photography |
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art, culture |
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similar to photographs |
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image, likeness, picture, print, slide, snap, snapshot |
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some actions associated with photography |
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copy, crop, develop, distort, enlarge, expose, film, filter, focus, mount, pose, print, project, sit |
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some descriptions of photographs |
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action, aerial, close-up, digital, landscape, panoramic, remote, satellite, still, underwater |
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some elements of photography |
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angle, background, contrast, focus, foreground, lighting, perspective, subject |
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some kinds of photography |
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motion picture, portrait, x-ray |
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some people associated with photography |
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model, photographer |
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some places associated with photographs |
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album, book, booth, catalogue, gallery, internet, locket, magazine, newspaper, passport, scrapbook, studio |
The word photography
contains the following parts:
graph, -graphy
Greek
root
that means writing, drawing, recording
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autobiography, autograph, bibliography, biography, geography, graph, graphic, graphics, graphite, homograph, mimeograph, oceanography, paragraph, phonograph, photograph, photography, seismograph, telegraph, topography
phot, photo
Greek
root
that means light
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- synonyms:
- luc, lum
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