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movie
[ moo-vee ]
noun
- a sequence of consecutive still images recorded in a series to be viewed on a screen in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement; motion picture.
- a story, event, or the like, presented in this form.
- movies,
- Usually the movies. the movie industry:
The movies use MPA ratings to inform patrons about content that may not be suitable for certain audiences.
- all movies as a group, or a specific category of movies, considered as a genre:
gangster movies.
- the exhibition of movies:
an evening at the movies.
- Often the movies. a movie theater:
Is there anything good playing at the movies on Main Street?
movie
/ ˈːɪ /
noun
- an informal word for film
- ( as modifier )
movie ticket
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of movie1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of movie1
Example Sentences
These are movies designed to be a good time at the expense of the audience’s sanity.
“The content itself can change, such as a movie poster being swapped out, so long as I choose a vintage-style movie poster.”
To call “April” an abortion drama is accurate and yet that description only barely brushes against this movie’s blending and subversion of genres.
Ideally, we like to watch movies in a state of willful ignorance regarding their making, even if the whole machinery of selling and promoting a movie seems to defy that.
Jean Luc-Godard once said he could have dissolved from that movie’s final shot to the opening of his “Breathless” with a simple transitional text: “Three years later.”
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