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photographing

photographing is the present participle and gerund of photograph.

Meaning of photograph

Verb

photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To take a photograph (of).
    • He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.1891, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
    • He is photographed on my mind.1881, Mary Anne Hardy, Through Cities and Prairie Lands
  3. (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.
    • She photographs well. The camera loves her.

See all 4 meanings of photograph

Noun

photographing (plural photographings)

  1. The taking of a photograph.
    • So, there you are with your geologist's hammer and your special camera, and you have come up against the fact that hammerings and photographings of things aren't those things.2018, Timothy Morton, Being Ecological, page xxxiv

Forms of photographing

pluralphotographings

Questions about photographing

What does photographing mean?
Photographing means the taking of a photograph.
What is photographing the present participle and gerund of?
Photographing is the present participle and gerund of photograph.
What part of speech is photographing?
Photographing is a noun.
What is the plural of photographing?
The plural of photographing is photographings.

Words near photographing in the dictionary

  1. photographic plates
  2. photographica
  3. photographical
  4. photographically
  5. photographies
  6. photographing
  7. photographings
  8. photographist
  9. photographists
  10. photographize
  11. photographized

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