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What is the difference between photosensitive and photograph?

photosensitive | photograph |

As a adjective photosensitive

is having a reaction to, or able to be affected by, light.

As a noun photograph is

a picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, ccd receptor, etc.

As a verb photograph is

to take a photograph of.

photosensitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having a reaction to, or able to be affected by, light
  • photograph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= 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 * photographer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take a photograph of.
  • * Hamerton
  • He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
  • * Lady D. Hardy
  • He is photographed on my mind.
  • To take photographs.
  • To appear in a photograph.
  • She photographs well. The camera ''loves'' her.