English noun: moving picture | |||
1. | moving picture (communication) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | ||
Samples | They went to a movie every Saturday night. The film was shot on location. | ||
Synonyms | film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show | ||
Broader (hypernym) | product, production, show | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | 3-D, 3D, cinema verite, collage film, coming attraction, docudrama, documentary, documentary film, feature, feature film, film noir, final cut, home movie, infotainment, musical, musical comedy, musical theater, rough cut, shoot-'em-up, short subject, silent movie, silent picture, silents, skin flick, slow motion, talkie, talking picture, telefilm, three-D | ||
Part holonym | caption, credit, credits, episode, scene, sequence, shot, subtitle | ||
Domain category members | dub, film, reshoot, shoot, synchronise, synchronize, take, tape, videotape | ||