Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
An instrument for writing in the dark, or by the blind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
An impression made on a photographic plate by a radioactive substance without the intervention of any opaque object other than the screen of the plate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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noun
An image of a ghost or other apparition appearing on unexposed film.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: lifestyle, occultism, religion
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History
From scoto- + -graph.
