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All the time, you're going into your modeling agency and they're taking Polaroids of you in a bathing suit. It was not something that was wonderful for me. It offered a lot of really great opportunities for me. But ultimately, it's a hard job because it's based solely on what your body looks like, what you look like.
Melissa Ordway

Meaning of "Polaroids" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLAROIDS

Polaroids  [ˈpəʊləˌrɔɪdz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLAROIDS

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Polaroids is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLAROIDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Polaroid

Polaroid may refer to: ▪ Polaroid Corporation, a multinational consumer electronics and eyewear company, and former instant camera and film maker ▪ Polaroid camera, or instant camera ▪ Polaroid film, instant film and photographs ▪ Polaroid, a type of synthetic plastic sheet used to polarize light ▪ Polaroid Eyewear, with glare-reducing polarized lenses made from Polaroid's polarizer In music: ▪ Polaroid, an album by Phantom Planet ▪ Polaroids: A Greatest Hits Collection, a compilation album by Shawn Colvin...

Definition of Polaroids in the English dictionary

The definition of Polaroids in the dictionary is Polaroid sunglasses.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLAROIDS


adenoids
ˈædɪˌnɔɪdz
AIDS
eɪdz
besides
bɪˈsaɪdz
classifieds
ˈklæsɪˌfaɪdz
Comrades
ˈkɒmreɪdz
Everglades
ˈɛvəˌɡleɪdz
Guides
ˈɡaɪdz
haemorrhoids
ˈhɛməˌrɔɪdz
hemorrhoids
ˈhɛmərɔɪdz
ides
aɪdz
insides
ˈɪnˌsaɪdz
Laurentides
ˈlɔːrənˌtaɪdz
Lloyd´s
lɔɪdz
palisades
ˌpælɪˈseɪdz
rapids
ˈræpɪdz
shades
ʃeɪdz
solids
ˈsɒlɪdz
spades
speɪdz
strides
straɪdz
upsides
ˈʌpˌsaɪdz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLAROIDS

Polaroid
Polaroid Land Camera

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLAROIDS

Atreids
Beds
boards
body fluids
bounds
cards
Cedar Rapids
ends
Fields
funds
goods
Grand Rapids
hands
heads
hundreds
in the clouds
Islands
methods
on the skids
visual aids

Synonyms and antonyms of Polaroids in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Polaroids» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLAROIDS

Find out the translation of Polaroids to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Polaroids from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Polaroids» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

宝丽来
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Polaroids
570 millions of speakers

English

Polaroids
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Polaroids
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صور بولارويد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Polaroids
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Polaroids
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পোলারাইড ল্যান্ড ক্যামেরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Polaroïds
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kamera Tanah Polaroid
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Polaroids
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ポラロイド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

폴라로이드 사진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Polaroid Land Camera
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Polaroids
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொலராய்ட் லேண்ட் கேமரா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोलारॉइड जमीन कॅमेरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Polaroid Kara Kamerası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Polaroids
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Polaroidy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Polaroids
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Polaroid
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Polaroids
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Polaroids
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polaroid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Polaroids
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Polaroids

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLAROIDS»

The term «Polaroids» is regularly used and occupies the 57.747 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLAROIDS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Polaroids

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3 QUOTES WITH «POLAROIDS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Polaroids.
1
Sante D'Orazio
I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought 'Genius.' Inside I put the Polaroids, how much film I shot, who I shot with. This way, for billing later on, I had all the information.
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Jennifer Jason Leigh
I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.
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Melissa Ordway
All the time, you're going into your modeling agency and they're taking Polaroids of you in a bathing suit. It was not something that was wonderful for me. It offered a lot of really great opportunities for me. But ultimately, it's a hard job because it's based solely on what your body looks like, what you look like.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLAROIDS»

Discover the use of Polaroids in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Polaroids and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Instant Love: How to Make Magic and Memories with Polaroids
Packed with tips on how to shoot with various cameras, details about the different types of film available, advice on composition and lighting techniques, plus creative projects to transform snapshots into keepsake mementos and portfolios ...
Jen Altman, Susannah Conway, Amanda Gilligan, 2012
2
Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids
A volume of sixty Polaroid photographs of the late Russian filmmaker's friends and family consists of images taken between 1979 and 1984 in his native land and Italy, where he spent time in political exile. Original.
Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ, Giovanni Chiaramonte, 2006
3
Carlo Mollino: polaroids
Even more compelling are the magically surreal Polaroid images Mollino made in his Turin studio during the last 14 years of his life, seen here in the first-ever collection of Mollinos carefully honed erotic photographs of women.
Fulvio Ferrari, Napoleone Ferrari, 2002
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Polaroids
A co-publication between Arsenal Pulp Press and three Canadian art galleries, this is the first book to document the work of this important artist, from an unusual perspective—a collection of some 1,200 full-color Polaroid images (twelve ...
Michael (ART) Morris, 2010
5
Found Polaroids
From the creators of FOUND Magazine, Dirty FOUND and the national best-selling FOUND books (Simon and Schuester), this hard-bound, full color edition features 192 previously unpublished Polaroids sent in from all over the world.
Jason Bitner, Tod (CON) Lippy, 2006
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Polaroids
Previously unpublished poloroid photographys by Manuel Alvarez Bravo reproduced in the original Polaroid's dimensions.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Colette Alvarez Urbajtel, 2005
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Polaroids from the Dead: And Other Short Stories
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn ...
Douglas Coupland, 2011
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Polaroids
Although firmly rooted in the real, Lillian Necakov's evocations of 'movie magic' prove irresistible in these forty poems and five collages.
Lillian Necakov, 1997
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Polaroids
This book brings together almost 300 images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist, revealing the themes that would inspire ...
Sylvia Wolf, 2013
10
William Wegman Polaroids
Gathers the best of the photographer's creative and often whimsical canine portraits as taken with a 20 x 24-inch Polaroid camera, in a treasury accompanied by an essay on his experiences with the camera and with his models.
William Wegman, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLAROIDS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Polaroids is used in the context of the following news items.
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Andy Warhol's Celebrity Polaroids Are Better Than Your Instagrams
Caption: A new book called Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958—1987 is filled with 700 of the artist's instant photos. Here, a young Dolly Parton. «Wired, Jul 15»
2
Here Is Our Very Definitive Ranking of Pearl Jam's Studio Albums
I covered a cork board in Polaroids, string, and index cards that was so extensive, it would make Carrie Mathison jealous. In the end, I believe I ... «UPROXX, Jul 15»
3
Miley Cyrus' VMA Hosting Will Be Crazy, Shocking And Tons Of Fun …
Fans were shocked when Miley Cyrus shared some very risque polaroids from her Bangerz tour. Cyrus went in a completely different direction ... «Hollywood Take, Jul 15»
4
'The Hunt with John Walsh' to feature Oregon sex slave case
Inside, they found Polaroids of women in bondage, women's underwear, rope, sex toys and chains. A soundproofing project was underway in ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
5
The Grainy Doom of the Apocalypse on Film
The Brooklyn-based artist's Polaroids are preceded by a prose text by author Leslie Jamison, who ominously broods on the visuals, suggesting ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
6
That Is the Back of Klaus Biesenbach's Head on the Cover of James …
CORRECTION 07/23/2015, 1:47 p.m.: An earlier version of this article stated that the photos on the cover of Flip-Side were Polaroids. «ARTnews, Jul 15»
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Millennials (and Tom Hanks) buying vintage typewriters
"Now the big thing is Polaroids." Contact Angela Hill at ahill@bayareanewsgroup.com, or follow her at Twitter @GiveEmHill. Print · Email Font ... «Contra Costa Times, Jul 15»
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Polaroids show iconic artists in New York
(CNN) Andy Warhol, Madonna, Debbie Harry, Grace Jones, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Glenn O'Brien, John Lurie -- iconic symbols from a bygone ... «CNN, Jul 15»
9
UnREAL: How a fake reality show reminds us of our real problems
... of tropes, each helpfully categorized by the production crew with polaroids and (rarely polite) nicknames. This being late-stage reality world, ... «National Post, Jul 15»
10
Millennials buying, collecting vintage typewriters
... typewriter craze. "Now the big thing is Polaroids." Contact Angela Hill at ahill@bayareanewsgroup.com, or follow her at Twitter @GiveEmHill. «Daily Democrat, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Polaroids [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/polaroids>. Apr 2024 ».
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