English Reference

Idiom

take a picture

Meaning

To photographically capture an image

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Please take a picture of us in front of the fountain.”

“She asked the stranger to take a picture of her family during their vacation.”

“The photographer paused to take a picture of the sunset, hoping to capture the fleeting light before it vanished behind the horizon.”

Examples

simple

“Please take a picture of us in front of the fountain.”

contextual

“She asked the stranger to take a picture of her family during their vacation.”

complex

“The photographer paused to take a picture of the sunset, hoping to capture the fleeting light before it vanished behind the horizon.”

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