| 释义 |
Photomaton orig. U.S.|fəʊˈtɒmətən|
[f. photo- 2 + automaton.]
The proprietary name of a machine that takes photographs automatically; a photograph taken by such a machine. Also abbrev. as ˈPhotomat.
1927N.Y. Times 28 Mar. 1/3 Henry Morgenthau..and a group of business associates announced yesterday that they had purchased the control of the Photomaton—the quarter-in-the-slot automatic photographing device which has been in use in this city since last September. 1927Bulletin (Glasgow) 28 Mar. 3/3 Anatol Josephs, the inventor of the Photomaton machine, sold the rights yesterday to a syndicate..for 1,000,000 dollars. 1928Daily Express 22 Feb. 11/5 Mr. O'Connor..tried his luck with the 1s. in the slot Photomaton with successful results. 1936G. Greene Gun for Sale iii. 104 I'll wire home for a better likeness. I've got a whole strip of Photomatons at home. Her face from every angle. You couldn't have a better lot of photos for newspaper purposes. 1963Trade Marks Jrnl. 22 May 691/1 Photomaton... Photographic apparatus and parts thereof..Cyril Astor Photomaton (London) Limited,..Rhyl,..North Wales; manufacturers and merchants. 1966L. Cohen Beautiful Losers (1970) iii. 237 The Photomat was broken; it accepted quarters but returned neither flashes nor pictures. 1966J. Betjeman High & Low 48 The enlarged Photomaton—that's the latest. 1973M. A. Sinclair tr. Simenon's Maigret & M. Charles iv. 92 A small passport photograph taken in a Photomat.
Hence phoˈtomaton v. trans., to photograph (someone) by means of a Photomaton.
1933V. Woolf Let. 19 Feb. (1979) V. 161 I've got to be photomatoned tomorrow. |