Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A movie with a sound track.
Wiktionary
- n. informal A movie with sound.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a movie with synchronized speech and singing
Examples
“His mobile phone, the size of a second world war walkie-talkie, is among the ancient possessions returned to him.”
“Lucien tossed me the walkie-talkie from the very back of the group and smirked, knowing the officers would have to shut up now.”
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“Granton Trawler is undoubtedly a "talkie" - no music perhaps, but a rich tapestry of natural sounds, from whistling and waves to gulls, creaks and the thick-accented fishermen onboard the titular vessel.”
“A mom in West Virginia says her 3-year-old's Diego walkie-talkie, which is supposed to have a range of 20 feet, picked up some blue talk from truckers who may have been 275 miles away.”
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“The sound leakage is minimized, its low babble filling the otherwise quiet spaces until you position yourself directly below each "talkie" picture's acoustic projector (or in a few more intimate cases don the headphones).”
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“It's still a young entertainment medium -- comparing them chronologically to film, games have really only reached their "talkie" phase -- but a story is a story, and games really just haven't been adapted very well.”
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“His first "talkie" was "The Great Dictator" (1940), a masterpiece satirizing Hitler and Nazism.”
“You certainly don't hear or read people in our modern age "right around now" on the dachshund of time using some old-timy, "olden days" term like moving pictures to describe a movie or "talkie" these days... so why the "still photography"?”
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“I think that may have been his first 'talkie': I believe his co-director's duties were handling the dialogue, and possibly some action scenes also.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘talkie’.
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•Words We Use Here That Would Tick Of...
Or, Things That Get a Whole Lot More Fun With an -ie Ending.
See conversation on git, and have at it!
Edit: Many of the following are madeupical, but many are not. See als...wordie, foodie, roadie, cookie, prosie, poetrie, tunie, scriptie, democracie, pompous old gittie, funnie, hippie and 156 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Let's Go To the Movies
Film genres. Also see film--1 by bradleyrturner.
silent, talkie, drama, coming-of-age, comedy, black comedy, buddy movie, slapstick, romance, romcom, tearjerker, period piece and 44 more...
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Aussie: ie/ee/y/ey
Australians are in love with having an 'ee' sound on the end of their words. Typically, take a word and chop it down to the shortest it can be while still understandable, then add an 'ee' sound; sp...
brickie, telly, barbie, footy, housie, billy, bodgie, pokie, bodgy, talkie, chrissy, u-ie and 40 more...
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