(n.) A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
(v. t.) To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.
(v. i.) To practice photography; to take photographs.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(4) Photograph: Gareth Phillips for the Guardian Because health is devolved, the Welsh government can do things differently from England.
(5) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(6) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(7) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(8) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(9) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(10) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
(11) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(12) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
(13) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(14) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(15) As part of a series of articles on various aspects of image conservation, practical advice is given on how best to ensure image permanence of contemporary photographs.
(16) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
(17) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
(18) Photograph: Facebook "Iran's state television is only showing one side of society, only the people with hijab.
(19) The positive predictive value of the clinical diagnosis could be increased to more than 80% by measuring the degree of miosis and ptosis on single photographs, or by assuming independent confirmation of the clinical diagnosis by a second observer.
(20) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.
Portfolio
Definition:
(n.) A portable case for holding loose papers, prints, drawings, etc.
(n.) Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to resign the portfolio.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(2) This non-cabinet post – equivalent to a minister without portfolio – enabled him to be at the centre of all government activities.
(3) The 2-dimensional portfolio-matrix will be used to analyse these factors, manifesting both the overall activity of a research unit and the development of new research and funding strategies.
(4) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
(5) That would usually be the point of the match, having gone in 2-0 down at the interval, when United would be expected to set about trying to add another story to their portfolio of exceptional comebacks.
(6) In his critique of a GST increase on equity grounds, Bowen noted that Morrison had opened his tenure in the treasury portfolio by declaring the Commonwealth had a spending problem, not a revenue problem – but now seemed more interested in chasing revenue than cutting spending.
(7) In the past couple of years, it has purchased portfolios of loans from RBS, National Australia Bank, Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (Nama) and Lloyds Bank, betting on a recovery in European property markets.
(8) Hancock is covering the same portfolios but has moved up a rung from his previous position as a parliamentary under secretary of state.
(9) Renzi is also in the market for a prestigious portfolio for Italy's commissioner, who could be either Enrico Letta or Massimo D'Alema, both former prime ministers.
(10) In a review published on Thursday, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (Icai) says the Department for International Development (DfID) has failed to turn rhetoric about how bolstering the private sector can help end global poverty into a realistic, well-balanced and joined-up portfolio of programmes.
(11) We are really disappointed to hear that from April 2015 the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds will no longer be funded by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation.
(12) Often, a fund manager may run both unit trusts and investment trusts with similar aims and almost identical portfolios.
(13) I am looking forward to working closely with him to ensure the BBC's television portfolio remains the envy of the broadcasting world."
(14) The Blairs' property portfolio already includes a £3.6m townhouse and an £800,000 adjoining mews house in Connaught Square, London, two flats in Bristol and the constituency home in Trimdon, Co Durham, which Blair bought when he was elected MP for Sedgefield in 1983.
(15) The Rockefeller Brothers Fund pledged to reduce its investments in coal and tar sands to less than 1% of its portfolio.
(16) Currently a junior employment minister, she has been widely tipped as a shoo-in for Ken Clarke's job in the cabinet as minister for TV studios (or minister without portfolio, to give it its official title).
(17) He said it was clear to him from the time he took the industry portfolio post election that Holden did not intend to stay in Adelaide.
(18) "This sits within Nick Clegg's portfolio and I'm sure he's working on those answers," he said.
(19) Channel 4 is keen to talk of its business as a single portfolio.
(20) Other parts of the group's vast food portfolio could also be put on the block.