Portrait vs Photograph - What's the difference?
portrait | photograph | Synonyms |
A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
* Sir J. Reynolds
(figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
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To take a photograph of.
* Hamerton
* Lady D. Hardy
To take photographs.
To appear in a photograph.
As nouns the difference between portrait and photograph
is that portrait is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders while photograph is a picture created by projecting an onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.As verbs the difference between portrait and photograph
is that portrait is to portray; to draw while photograph is to take a photograph of.As an adjective portrait
is representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.portrait
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Alternative forms
* pourtraict (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
- The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
Antonyms
* (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profileAdjective
(-)- a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs , MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Derived terms
* photo * photographic * photography * photographerExternal links
* (wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
- He is photographed on my mind.
- She photographs well. The camera ''loves'' her.