Noun

photo (plural photos)

1. photograph

Verb

to photo (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)

1. To take a photograph.

Quotations

• [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [1]

  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 [2]

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

• 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [3]

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

A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating photographs is called photography. The word "photograph" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos) "light" and γραφή (graphê) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".