Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A movie with a soundtrack.
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- noun informal A
movie with sound.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a movie with synchronized speech and singing
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Examples
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His mobile phone, the size of a second world war walkie-talkie, is among the ancient possessions returned to him.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review Philip French 2010
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Lucien tossed me the walkie-talkie from the very back of the group and smirked, knowing the officers would have to shut up now.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Polaris Spark’s Review Forum 2009
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And finally, how to listen to satellites with a walkie talkie is here.
Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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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.
DVD Times 2008
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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.
Fisher-Price Walkie-Talkie Picks Up Trucker Talk; Now Tot Wants Pot And Strippers - The Consumerist 2008
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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.
‘Twilight’ Producer Offers Updates On ‘Gears Of War’ And ‘Dead Space’ Adaptations » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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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).
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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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).
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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His first "talkie" was "The Great Dictator" (1940), a masterpiece satirizing Hitler and Nazism.
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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"?
Rumblings of Change: The Future's So Loud, I Gotta Wear Earplugs BikeSnobNYC 2010
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