'Motion picture' definitions:
Definition of 'motion picture'
(from WordNet)
noun
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick]
Definition of 'Motion picture'
From: GCIDE
- Motion picture \Mo"tion pic"ture\
- 1. A series of pictures on a strip of film, taken at regular intervals in rapid succession (now usually 24 frames per second for ordinary work) by a special camera, intended to capture the image of objects in motion. [PJC]
- 2. the display of the images captured on a {motion picture}[1], presented to the eye in very rapid succession by projection from a special apparatus (a {movie projector}), with shows some or all of the objects in the picture represented in changing positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects appear to move as they did in the original scene.
- Syn: movie, moving picture, flick. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- 3. The conceptual or informational content of a {motion picture}[1]; the actions or events represented in a motion picture[1]; the story line of a movie. "One of the great punch lines in motion picture history is `Round up the usual suspects.' from `Casablanca'." [PJC]
Synonyms of 'motion picture'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 3-D,
- animated cartoon,
- black-and-white film,
- boom shot,
- cartoon,
- chiller,
- cine,
- cinema,
- Cinemascope,
- Cinerama,
- close-up,
- color film,
- creepie,
- deuce shot,
- documentary,
- documentary film,
- educational film,
- feature,
- film,
- flick,
- flicker,
- follow-focus shot,
- full shot,
- group shot,
- horror picture,
- horse opera,
- kinescope,
- long shot,
- matte shot,
- medium shot,
- motion-picture show,
- movie,
- moving picture,
- newsreel,
- nudie,
- pan shot,
- panoramic shot,
- photodrama,
- photoplay,
- picture,
- picture show,
- pornographic film,
- preview,
- process shot,
- rap shot,
- retake,
- short,
- shot,
- show,
- silent,
- silent film,
- skin flick,
- sneak preview,
- spaghetti Western,
- take,
- talkie,
- talking picture,
- Technicolor,
- thriller,
- trailer,
- travel shot,
- trucking shot,
- underground film,
- Western,
- zoom shot