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photo | phot |

As nouns the difference between photo and phot

is that photo is while phot is a photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).

As a verb phot is

(informal) to.

photo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Photograph.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=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.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take a photograph.
  • * [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=5kjheskJwVAC&pg=PA465&lpg=PA465&sig=_CY8N5ZLStxnOIlf_CNHhhBEPjA]
    • 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 [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=vQ7DKhq0ZckC&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&sig=hrMAoHDI9vAnq4RQwgFro_Lp24M]
    • He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.
  • * 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=2nFEV20sE1AC&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&sig=8MxWTUwSXHcfah6pEaAnVLYaiL4]
    • Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

    See also

    * photo- * photosensitive * photosynthesis, photosynthesize * photogenic * photocell * photo finish * photo opportunity * snapshot ----

    phot

    English

    Etymology 1

    Coined by André Blondel in 1921. See (photo-).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).

    • Etymology 2

    Shortening of (photograph)

    Verb

    (phott)
  • (informal) to
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , year=1999 , date=May 28 , author=David Johnson , title=Re:re Looking on with responsibility , newsgroup=aus.rail citation , passage=They said no, so I climbed off a bridge and spent the rest of the day photting and cab-riding around BHP without permission.}}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , year=2003 , date=12 July , author="The Three Rivers Rambler" , title=Re: Plane identity still a mystery , newsgroup=alt.local.geordie citation , passage=It's not an aerial one though as I havn't devved the transparency stuff yet, and I'll not get chance tommorrow as I'm photting the Touring Cars @ Croft.}}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , year=2010 , date=June 09 , author="n...@plunderhere.com" , title=FA: Rupert grint photo silver dog tag dogtag necklace pendant jewelry (
  • :1531663)
    • , newsgroup=alt.marketplace citation , passage=dog tag is hard to phot because it is so shiny.}}