photographs

NOUN

a still picture taken with a camera

Synonyms

STRONGEST

image likeness photo picture portrait print snapshot

STRONG

Photostat Polaroid blowup microfilm mug negative pic pix positive shot slide snap transparency

WEAK

Kodachrome Kodak close-up pinup

VERB

take a picture with a camera

Synonyms

STRONGEST

capture illustrate print reproduce shoot

STRONG

Photostat cinematize copy film get lens microfilm mug photo picture record roll snap snapshot take turn x-ray

WEAK

capture on film close-up get a likeness get a shot make a picture photoengrave

Antonyms

STRONG

fail lose misunderstand

Example Sentences

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During these transits, astronomers used spectrographs to break the starlight into its component colors.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

UAPx’s instruments include infrared, visible, and ultraviolet cameras and spectrographs.

From Scientific American • Feb. 6, 2023

All four contain spectrographs, which break light into a spectrum that scientists can analyze to learn more about distant objects.

From The Verge • Jul. 7, 2022

The 5000 fibers snake down the back of the telescope to a temperature-controlled room containing 10 spectrographs, each analyzing the light of 500 galaxies simultaneously.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 11, 2019

Accordingly, successive steps have led through spectrographs of 18 and 30 feet dimension to a vertical spectrograph 75 feet in focal length.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck