Camera

Definition: Camera

Camera

Noun

1. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.

2. Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "camera" was first used: 16th century. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Environment

Fine Arts

Post & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CAMERA

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Camera

Artist

Photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician, camera buff; wildlife photographer.

Concealment

Underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily; Adjective: behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen; incognito; in camera.

Warning

Monitor, guard camera,

Crosswords: Camera

Dutch (camera), German (camera), Italian (apartment, chamber, house, lodging, room), Latin (camera, vault, vaulted room, vaulted room /small boat), Lombard (chamber, room), Romanian (the room), Romansch (camera).

I see why you like this video camera so much (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez)

People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis.)

Just don't do it on camera! (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies)

Until I remembered my security camera, which I installed to catch other Walter using my latrine (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Get up. There's no camera in here (Mommie Dearest; writing credit: Christina Crawford; Robert Getchell)

They were crying to the camera (Stole; performing artist: Kelly Rowland)

I got a Nikon camera (Kodachrome; performing artist: Paul Simon; writing credit: Paul Simon)

Imagine little miss 4.0 just smiling for the camera on the cover of Vogue (Carlene; performing artist: Phil Vassar)

She even caught me on camera (It Wasn't Me; performing artist: Shaggy)

And when you smile for the camera (Peg; performing artist: STEELY DAN)

Camera sutra (of de bleekgezichten) (1973)

OK... Camera (1972)

Camera Bug (1972)

Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean (1965)

Bunny Yeager's Nude Camera (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Concord Camera Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Leica Camera AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Camera Platforms International, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Television Camera Tubes, Image Converters and Intensifiers, and Other Photocathode Tubes: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (reference)

• How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera (reference)

• TechTV's Digital Camera and Imaging Guide (reference)

• The Little Digital Camera Book (reference)

• Tricky Pix: Do It Yourself Trick Photography With Camera (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Asahi Kamera = Asahi Camera (reference)

• Australian Camera (reference)

• Australian Camera & Shooting Video Photographers Handbook (reference)

• Australian Digital Camera (reference)

• Black Camera (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Chino/Man With a Camera (reference)

• Man With the Movie Camera (reference)

• Pacific - Combat Camera (reference)

• Gi Joe:Lights Camera Cobra (reference)

• Suicidal Tendencies: Lights... Camera... Suicidal (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sonata Da Camera / Rhapsodies / Prelude (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Fuji Nexia Q1 APS Camera (Pink) (Nexia Q1) (reference)

• Nikon Coolpix 2500 2MP Digital Camera w/ 3x Optical Zoom (reference)

• Hawking Technologies 100K Pixels 30 Fps 16.7M Colors USB Webcam PC Video Camera (reference)

• Pc Camera 100K Pixel (reference)

• CONTAX Carl Zeiss Planar T 80mm F/2 Lens for Contax 645 Camera (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• FIRST ALERT FAC-720 Wireless B/W Camera (reference)

• LINEAR / NORTEK Closed Circuit TV with Camera (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is a radiology technician preparing a 42 year old white woman for a mammogram. The technician is positioning the paddle that compresses the breast. The patient's face is turned towards the technician, away from the camera, and her right shoulder and breast are exposed. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

FIDO Rover Retracted Arm and Camera. Credit: NASA.

Technician Setting up RCA Television Camera. Credit: NASA.

Ultraviolet image of Jupiter taken by the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. The ... Credit: NASA.

After more than three years of inactivity, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object ... Credit: NASA.

Montage of images of the asteroid Vesta taken by the Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA.

Near-infrared image of young binary stars with a faint companion (a planet?). (Produced with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA.

K-1 camera. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Navy crewman holding K-1 camera Used on Mississippi Delta mapping project. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The "Skylab" building which was used as laboratories. There was a lounge on the third floor. An all-sky camera on the roof photographed auroras. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The cornea and lens in the eye act as the camera lens. (references)

The refractive process is similar to the way a camera takes a picture. (references)

Pictures are generated by a special camera to show how well the heart is functioning. (references)

Business

Phone models with a built-in camera are already being tested. (references)

One key growth factor is a remarkable increase of young Japanese women using PC’s not only for Internet and e-mail but also for enjoying music and digital camera images. (references)

These proposals range from gantry-mounted, high-resolution, all-weather camera systems that observe machine-readable vehicle license plates, to roadside trackers and buried sensors that communicate with in-car beacons. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

The attackers destroyed the journalist's camera, fax machine, and furniture, and stole money. (references)

Morocco

During the arrest, Hannouda reportedly suffered a broken shoulder; in addition his camera was broken. (references)

Mexico

The authorities dismissed robbery as a motive because the victim was found with his wallet and camera. (references)

Human Rights

Swaziland

Police reportedly were abusive and used a video camera as they searched the premises for 3 hours. (references)

Zimbabwe

On September 8 in Bulawayo, police arrested three bodyguards of MDC M.P. David Coltart during a mayoral election and confiscated their video camera and radios. (references)

Afghanistan

The agents disguised themselves as journalists to gain access to Masood and concealed explosives in their camera equipment, which they detonated in Masood's presence. (references)

Minorities

Georgia

On March 24, a mob of Basilists attacked eight visiting foreign Assembly of God members; the Basilists stole their camera equipment and inflicted minor injuries. (references)

Hungary

After several failed attempts to register a complaint with the police, one of the Rom took a hidden camera to the police station and recorded the police officer threatening to beat him and stating that it was unfortunate he had not been killed during the incident. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Police took a camera, a file of newspaper cuttings, five boxes of slides, a corrector tape, three floppy disks, and a bottle of whiskey. (references)

Trade

Taiwan

Tariffs: In May 1998, Taiwan began implementing tariff cuts on 1,130 items, many of specific interest to U.S. industry, such as buses, agricultural products, and camera film. (references)

India

Fertilizers, mining equipment, wood products, jewelry, camera components, paper and paperboard, ferrous waste and scrap, computers, office machines and spares, textile machinery and spare parts, hand tools, soft drinks, cling peaches, vegetable juice and canned soup would also benefit. (references)

Travel

Guatemala

The temporary entry of goods for personal use while in Guatemala, such as camera equipment, cellular telephones, laptop computers, etc. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Beginning with "camera": camera-back, camera-bag, camera-bereft, camera-bulb, camera-control, camera-eye, camera-fetching, camera-gun, camera-holding, camera-kite, camera-laden, camera-like, camera-man, camera-mounted, camera-obsessed, camera-on-a-chip, camera-original, camera-originals, camera-ready, camera-ready copy, camera-ready-copy, camera-reconnaissance, camera-screen, camera-shake, camera-ship, camera-shot, camera-shy, camera-sized, camera-stalking, camera-strapped, camera-to-tape, camera-toting, camera-tripod, camera-wise, camera-work.

Ending with "camera": binoculars-camera, in-camera, off-camera, two-camera.

Containing "camera": near-camera-ready, television-camera tube, tri-camera photography.

Afrikaans

kamera. (various references)

Albanian

zyrë private e gjykatësit, kamerë televizive, kamerë kinematografike, fotoaparat, aparat fotografik. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاميرا, ‏غرفة القاضي, ‏غرفة (cell, chamber, compartment, pad, room), ‏الة ألتصوير اليدوية (kodak), ‏آلة تصوير (copier). (various references)

Asturian

cámara. (various references)

Bemba

kamela. (various references)

Blackfoot

iihtáísínaakio'p (pen). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фотоапарат, филмова камера, камера (cell, chamber). (various references)

Cebuano

kamera. (various references)

Chamorro

litratu. (various references)

Chinese 

照相机 (Cameras), 照相機 , 攝影機 . (various references)

Czech

kamera, fotoaparát. (various references)

Danish

kamera (still camera). (various references)

Dutch

camera (still camera), kiektoestel, fototoestel. (various references)

Esperanto

kamerao, fotilo. (various references)

Faeroese

ljósmyndatól. (various references)

Farsi 

دوربین یاجعبه عکاسی . (various references)

Finnish

valokuvauskone, kamera. (various references)

French

caméra (cine camera, motion picture camera, movie camera, still camera, television camera, TV camera), appareil photographique (still camera), appareil photo (still camera). (various references)

Frisian

fototastel. (various references)

German

Kamera (dark-room, small room), Photoapparat, Fotoapparat. (various references)

Greek 

φωτογραφική μηχανή, κάμερα (still camera). (various references)

Hawaiian

fotoaparat. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצלמה. (various references)

Hungarian

kamera (motion-picture camera), fényképezõgép, fényképezőgép (folding camera), fényképezôgép. (various references)

Indonesian

kamera (kodak), alat potret. (various references)

Inuktitut

atjiliuruti. (various references)

Irish

cheamara, ceamara. (various references)

Italian

macchina fotografica, telecamera (telecamera). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

写真器 , 写真機　, 写真機 , カポシ肉腫 (cam, camellia, camembert, cameo, camera angle, camera position, camera rehearsal, camera reportage, camera work, camera-eye, cameraman, camomile, camouflage, CAMUS, chameleon, collar, collarless, color, color arrangement, color box, color combination, color conditioning, color coordinator, color display, color dynamics, color ink, color marking pen, color mechanical tint, color planning, color rinse, color screentone, color spraypaint, colored, colored steel sheet, colorless, colour, comeback, cummerbund, French cognac, kapok, Kaposi sarcoma, kayak, younger members of the group). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゃしんき, カメラ . (various references)

Korean 

사진기 (Cameras). (various references)

Macedonian

aparat za slikanje. (various references)

Manx

shamyr vriw, shamraig, camerey. (various references)

Maori

kaamera. (various references)

Mohawk

yontatya'tarahkwa. (various references)

Norwegian

kamera, fotoapparat. (various references)

Pig Latin

ameracay.(various references)

Portuguese

câmera, câmara (assembly, chamber, room). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

máquina. (various references)

Provencal

aparelh de fòto. (various references)

Romanian

camerå fotografica, camerã de chibzuinţã, aparat fotografic. (various references)

Romansch

camera. (various references)

Russian 

камера (cell, chamber, inner tire, ward). (various references)

Samoan

meapueata. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zasvođena prostorija, kamera, fotografski aparat. (various references)

Spanish

cámara fotográfica, cámara (cam, cameraman, chamber, cine camera, hall, house, innertube, lieu, tire, tyre, vault), cámara de películas. (various references)

Swahili

chombo kupigia picha. (various references)

Swedish

kamera. (various references)

Tagalog

kámerá. (various references)

Thai

กล้องถ่ายภาพ. (various references)

Turkish

mahrem (close, closet, confidental, hush hush, private, privy, secluded, secret), kamera, hakimin özel odası (chamber), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), fotoğraf makinesi, fotoğraf makínasi. (various references)

Turkmen 

fotoapparat (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

склепінчасте приміщення, склепіння (arc, arch, barrel, cove, coving, vault, vaulting), фотоапарат, телевізійна камера, кінокамера (cine camera), кіноапарат (cine camera), кабінет судді. (various references)

Vietnamese 

xử kín trong đời sống riêng. (various references)

Zulu

ikhamera. (various references)

kamara. (various references)

camera. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "camera": camerae, cameral, cameraman, cameramen, cameraperson, camerapersons, cameras, camerawoman, camerawomen. (additional references)

Words containing "camera": bicameral, bicameralism, bicameralisms, unicameral, unicamerally. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Camera" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acerra, Amera, Ametra, cabeza, Cacerta, Caega, Caerau, Caerfai, cahmere, Cajetan, Camada, Camarda, Camaro, camary, Camberra, camer, camerad, camerae, camerat, Cameria, Camero, camira, camor, camoran, campera, Campero, Camray, Camrex, canere, Caneva, carera, Carerra, casear, Caserma, casmere, catera, cavere, Cezeri, cinera, cmea, c'mere, Cmhera, coera, Comega, comeragh, comeri, comero, Cumbra, cumerih, Cyaneka, Cymreig, Damara, Damerau, Gamera, Gamerra, Kagera, kamera, Kamerad, kamerun, Kamira, Kamuza, kimera, Namara, sameri. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: areca, cream, macer.

-2 letters: acme, acre, area, came, care, cram, maar, mace, marc, mare, race, ream.

-3 letters: ace, ama, arc, are, arm, cam, car, ear, era, mac, mae, mar, ram, rec, rem.

-4 letters: aa, ae, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, re.

+1 letter: camerae, cameral, cameras, caramel, ceramal, macaber, macabre, macrame.

+2 letters: capmaker, caramels, carmaker, ceramals, chimaera, crabmeat, decagram, drachmae, macerate, macrames, marchesa, massacre, racemate, vambrace.

+3 letters: acclaimer, amberjack, bicameral, cablegram, cameraman, cameramen, capmakers, carbamate, carbamide, carmakers, chimaeras, comanager, crabmeats, creamware, decagrams, demarcate, hackamore, macerated, macerates, macerator, marcasite, marchpane, mascaraed, massacred, massacrer, massacres, mercaptan, metacarpi, pacemaker, paramecia, paramedic, racemates, sacrament, smearcase, vambraces.