Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An early movie projector.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A view of life, or anything which gives such a view: as, “Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners” (a book-title).
- noun 2. A cinematograph or vita-scope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A view of life; that which gives such a view.
- noun archaic An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see); an archaic term replaced by
movie projector . - noun a South African movie theater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An early form of
movie projector - noun South Africa, dated A
cinema or movie theatre.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a South African movie theater
- noun a kind of early movie projector
Etymologies
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Examples
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“So this is the kind of bioscope the master wanted me to see!”
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"So this is the kind of bioscope the master wanted me to see!"
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Tibetans first called the cinema beskop, from "bioscope" one of the early terms for movies (as kinema, vitascope, etc.) and now apparently used only by South Africans, Nepalese and Tibetans.
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Tibetans first called the cinema beskop, from "bioscope" one of the early terms for movies (as kinema, vitascope, etc.) and now apparently used only by South Africans, Nepalese and Tibetans.
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Where else did an Indian youth in subtropical South Africa learn how to be a gangster but at the bioscope?
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Where else did an Indian youth in subtropical South Africa learn how to be a gangster but at the bioscope?
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Borrowed words like these were in common use throughout the country, while in Lhasa you could smoke a shik-ray (cigarette), chew gig-chiri (chewing gum), or buy a tikkus (ticket) to the beskop (bioscope, cinema) to watch the movies of Charlie Chumping.
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These shifting and confused gusts of memory never lasted for more than a few seconds; it often happened that, in my spell of uncertainty as to where I was, I did not distinguish the successive theories of which that uncertainty was composed any more than, when we watch a horse running, we isolate the successive positions of its body as they appear upon a bioscope.
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This tool provides a bioscope to display comprehensive information on natural resources, infrastructure, telecommunications, minerals and energy resources, health services, transport and educational facilities.
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Damning television as only a 'little house-bioscope', Dr Hertzog said that the Opposition wanted it introduced only because a group of them and their friends were out to make a profit.
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