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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun movie has 1 sense
- movie(n = noun.communication) film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show - a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" is a kind of product, production, show
has parts: episode, sequence, credit, caption, subtitle, credits, scene, shot
has particulars: telefilm, feature, feature film, final cut, home movie, collage film, coming attraction, shoot-'em-up, short subject, docudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment, cinema verite, film noir, skin flick, rough cut, silent movie, silent picture, silents, slow motion, talkie, talking picture, 3-d, 3d, three-d, musical, musical comedy, musical theater
CIDE DICTIONARY
movie, n.
- A motion picture. [PJC]
- A motion picture show; the event of showing a motion picture. In the
pl. , the event of showing a motion picture at a movie theater; as, to go to the movies; to spend an evening at the movies. [PJC] - The motion picture industry or medium, generally. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
movie, n. esp. US colloq.
1 a motion-picture film.
2 (in full movie-house) a cinema.
1 a motion-picture film.
2 (in full movie-house) a cinema.
THESAURUS
movie
3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, actor-proof, all-star, animated cartoon, ballet, balletic, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema, cinematic, cinematographic, cinematography, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, educational film, feature, film, filmic, flick, flicker, flicks, ham, hammy, histrionic, horror picture, horse opera, legitimate, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, motion picture, motion-picture show, movies, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, operatic, overacted, overplayed, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, scenic, short, show, silent, silent film, silver screen, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, talkie, talking picture, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thriller, thrown away, trailer, underacted, underground film, underplayed, vaudevillianROGET THESAURUS
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Representation
N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.
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