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movie
has definitions from the fields of film,performing arts
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[ noun ] (film,performing arts) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
Examples "they went to a movie every Saturday night" "the film was shot on location" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)`` Our interior line and our linebackers played exceptionally well '' , said Stram_Monday after he and his staff reviewed movies of the game . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)`` in many corners of the globe '' , he said , `` the major source of impressions about this country are in the movies they meet . Would we want a future-day Gibbon or Macaulay recounting the saga of America with movies as his prime source of knowledge ? (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Is a dream simply a mental or cerebral movie ? (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Unfortunately , few of the artists ( writers , movie producers , dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways . |
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