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English

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Logo of Instagram

Etymology

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    Trade name.Blend ofinstant +‎telegram.[1][2] Bysurface analysis,insta- +‎-gram.

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    Instagram

    1. (Internet) Anonlinephoto- andvideo-sharingsocial networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashionedinstant cameras.
      • 2019 September 25, Kendra Pierre-Louis, “How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last”, inNew York Times[1]:
        According to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclay, 9 percent of shoppers in Britain admitted to buying clothes online forInstagram. After posting pictures of themselves wearing the item online, they return it.
      • 2020, “Carla's got a boyfriend”, inThe Night Chancers, performed by Baxter Dury:
        Carla's got a boyfriend / I spotted him on Instagram / Followed him about a bit

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    Translations

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    online photo-sharing service

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    Noun

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    Instagram (pluralInstagrams)

    1. A user's profile or account on this service.
      Have you seen herInstagram lately?
      She's been blowing up myInstagram!
    2. Aphotograph orvideo shared on this service.
      I saw one of herInstagrams last week, but I haven't talked to her since then.

    Verb

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    Instagram (third-person singular simple presentInstagrams,present participleInstagramming,simple past and past participleInstagrammed)

    1. (intransitive) To use thesocial networking serviceInstagram.
      • 2013 July 5, Lyndsey Winship, “Mårten Spångberg, the bad boy of contemporary dance”, inThe Guardian[2]:
        The thinking goes that if the modern audience watches TV on laptops, whileInstagramming and checking emails at the same time, why would contemporary artists ignore that and insist on trapping them in a silent black box for an hour?
    2. (ambitransitive) Topost animage orvideo to Instagram.
      • 2012,Nas,No I.D.,Patrick Adams,Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer,Paul Leka, “Daughters” (track 5), inLife is Good, performed by Nas:
        Her mother cried when she answered / Said she don't know what got inside this child's mind, she planted / A box of condoms on her dresser then sheInstagrammed it.
      • 2014 July 7, Kaitlan Collins, “Kim Kardashian Was Desperate To Leave The Hamptons So She CouldInstagram”, inThe Daily Caller[3]:
        [see title]
    3. (ambitransitive) Todigitallymanipulate aphotograph usingfiltereffects.
      • 2012, Jefferson Graham,Video Nation,→ISBN, page160:
        To illustrate, I used B-roll of photos on the iPhone that were being “Instagrammed” (Figure 8.6) with fun filters along with screen captures of Instragram's No. 1 ranking in the iTunes App Store and the Apple website touting the iPhone 4S.
      • 2013 May 31, Kory Stamper, “The Spelling Bee turns Twitter into our national sports bar”, inThe Guardian[4]:
        In a world where it is de rigueur to announce your wedding on Facebook and show the world artfullyInstagrammed pictures of your appendectomy, it's no surprise that the Bee has a social media presence.
      • 2014, Reenita Malhotra Hora,Operation Mom,→ISBN:
        There he was, staring cheekily into the camera for a perfectlyinstagrammed photo which had been touched up to show off his muscles, raw sex appeal and wild, unkempt hair.
      • 2014, Rachael Chadwick,60 Postcards: The inspirational story of a young woman's journey to celebrate her mother, one postcard at a time,→ISBN:
        The cameras were out and we were all trying to get pictures of each other, which we then spent a further half an hour trying toInstagram to make us look as good as possible

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    1. ^Somini Sengupta, Nicole Perlroth, Jenna Worthamapril (2012 April 13) “Behind Instagram’s Success, Networking the Old Way”, inNew York Times:They gave it a new name: Instagram. “We renamed because we felt it better captured what you were doing — an instant telegram of sorts,” Mr. Systrom wrote on Quora, a question-and-answer site that his friend Mr. D’Angelo had started.
    2. ^Kevin Systrom (2011 January 12) “What is the genesis of Instagram?”, inQuora:[] we went out on a limb, and basically cut everything in the Burbn app except for its photo, comment, and like capabilities. What remained was Instagram. (We renamed because we felt it better captured what you were doing -- an instant telegram of sorts. It also sounded camera-y)

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    Anagrams

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    German

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishInstagram.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɪnstaˌɡʁam/,/ˈɪnstəˌɡɹɛm/
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    Proper noun

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    Instagram n (proper noun,strong,genitiveInstagramsorInstagram)

    1. (Internet)Instagram

    Declension

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    Declension ofInstagram [sg-only, neuter, strong]
    singular
    indef.def.noun
    nominativeeindasInstagram
    genitiveeinesdesInstagrams,Instagram
    dativeeinemdemInstagram
    accusativeeindasInstagram

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    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishInstagram.

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    Instagram m

    1. (Internet)Instagram
      Synonym:(clipping)Insta

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    Romanian

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    RomanianWikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipediaro

    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishInstagram

    Proper noun

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    Instagram m

    1. (Internet)Instagram

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    Turkish

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    TurkishWikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipediatr

    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishInstagram.

    Proper noun

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    Instagram

    1. (Internet)Instagram
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