# photo
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of photograph

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfəʊ.təʊ/, [ˈfəʊtʰəʊ]
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈfoʊ.toʊ/, [ˈfŏʊɾoʊ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊtəʊ

### Noun

photo (plural photos)
* (informal) A photograph.
** 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
* (informal) A photo finish.
** 2005 June 28, “Racing diary: In the shake-up”, in The Telegraph‎: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.
* (informal) A digital picture of any kind.
* (informal) Photography
** 1981 February 7, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 14:Photo student in need of subjects.

#### Derived terms

* air photo
* airphoto
* astrophoto
* file photo
* group photo
* nonphoto
* non-photo blue
* orthophoto
* phlog
* photo album
* photo artist
* photobank
* photobash
* photobiography
* photoblog
* photoblogger
* photoboard
* photobomb
* photobombing
* photobook
* photo booth
* photocall
* photocard
* photocomic
* photo cube
* photo echo
* photo editor
* photo-essay
* photo essay
* photofinisher
* photo finishing
* photofit
* photofitting
* photoholic
* photo kill
* photolab
* photoless
* photolike
* photolog
* photolurker
* photolurking
* photolyze
* photo machine
* photomagazine
* photo magnet
* photomancy
* photomarathon
* photo mode
* photomosaic
* photonovel
* photo-offset
* photo op
* photo pack
* photopaper
* photo paper
* photophobia
* photoplayer
* photo-portrait
* photorealist
* photo-romance
* photosharing
* photo shoot
* photoshoot
* photostory
* photostream
* photowalk
* photoworthy
* phytophotodermatitis
* radiophoto
* stereophoto
* stock photo
* telephoto
* wirephoto

#### Descendants

* → Hausa: hṑtō

#### Translations
### Verb

photo (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)
* (transitive) To take a photograph of.
** [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter
    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
    He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.
** 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
    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

### Anagrams

* top ho

## French
### Etymology

Clipping of photographie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔ.to/, /fo.to/
* Audio (France):(file)
* Audio (France):(file)
* Rhymes: -o

### Noun

photo f (plural photos)
* photo

#### Derived terms

* appareil photo
* ne pas y avoir photo

### Further reading

* “photo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.