kodak

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a camera, especially a small hand camera (historical generic use of the trademark)

   The traveler carried a kodak so that he could record each stage of the journey.

2. 2
   noun

   a snapshot or photograph taken with a camera (dated)

   The album contained faded kodaks of the harbor before the new docks were built.

3. 3
   verb

   to photograph with a camera (dated)

   Tourists stopped to kodak the castle from the roadside.

From Kodak, the camera trademark introduced by George Eastman's company in 1888. Eastman coined the name rather than deriving it from an older word; historical generic use then produced lowercase nouns for a camera or photograph and a verb meaning "to photograph."

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