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名詞

kodak (plural kodaks)

1. (dated) A camera: a device for taking still photographs.
   • 1893, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Utopia, Limited:

     To diagnose / Our modest pose / The Kodaks do their best

   • 1911 June, Jack London, chapter 17, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

     Charmian and Martin brought up the rear, armed with kodaks. We dived under the avocado trees […] and came on a spot that satisfied Martin's photographic eye.

   • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 466:

     An American girl snapped her Kodak.

2. (dated) A still photograph.
   • 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70:

     There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 338:

     You may consult the kodaks taken at my arrest if you are curious, Archivist.

動詞

kodak (third-person singular simple present kodaks, present participle kodaking, simple past and past participle kodaked)

1. (transitive, dated) To photograph.
   • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat:

     A knot of obviously American tourists were kodaking his lodge-gates.

2. (transitive, dated) To describe or characterise briefly and vividly.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kodak.

派生語

アナグラム

• dokka