Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
- n. A connected cinematic narrative represented in this form.
- n. A showing of a movie. Often used in the plural: During the movie, the person in front of me kept talking. Would you like to go to the movies tonight?
- n. The movie industry.
Wiktionary
- n. A motion picture.
- n. A cinema.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A motion picture.
- n. 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.
- n. The motion picture industry or medium, generally.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
Etymologies
- Shortening and alteration of moving picture.
Examples
“We had a fantastic morning of special projects and a movie... with one small glitch between the project and the movie* everyone has been in a great mood, having fun and well behaved if kids are happy they behave -- did you all know that?”
“You can still sell movie adaptations to a limited extent, by getting it out before the movie* or releasing it in that brief** months-long window between the movie's theatrical run and its DVD release.”
“Haha love this movie Chadda zulfein jhatakna bhool jaoge 1 #movie where I like sunny deol”
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“I typed in vlc and there it was, so I selected my movie like this: vlc movies / legally \obtained \movie / movie. avi and that works just fine; VLC pops up and starts playing movie. avi, and I also found out that you could start VLC without an interface if you type in cvlc so that's cool.”
“I either would like a TOTALLY UNKNOWN, or Tom Felton - he seems pretty cool, and would fit the part. hehe Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03: 29 PM EST wow. please dont put those gay cookie cutter disney stars. dakota is a good actress. the twilight movie is jampacked full of great actors and actresses. putting LUCAS GRAEBEL IN? what the heck that ruins the whole movie~ put in someone that nows how to act - and not like a gay guy with a spoiled sister”
“you've got beer dripping from your chin ..' movie New in Town now watching #movie”
“In the movie file, show one add for an upcoming movie, then show the credit card details and user account information for about 5 seconds. "this copy of $movie is licenced to $name”
“All that said and done … I think this movie is another pure example of a poorly adapted movie from a book.”
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“The freakin 'movie is called "Hot Tub Time Machine" what the hell did you expect??!”
New Red-Band Trailer for HOT TUB TIME MACHINE – Collider.com
“This movie is nothing like Outpost or Zombie Lake or whatever low-budget movie from the 80's.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘movie’.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 135 more...
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Stuffie: Ssshhhhh!
Stuff that's silent.
witness, partner, night, disco, majority, number, alarm, butler, treatment, movie, auction, mutation and 1 more...
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