bioscope
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- noun
- Archaic
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bioscopio
- Children laughed as they watched cartoons at the neighborhood bioscope this weekend.
Examples
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An editorial from a September 1929 edition of The Bioscope titled "Square or Rectangle" goes so far as to refer to an expert on the matter: "According to Dr. W. R. Miles of Stanford University, the physical nature of the eye, as well as long habit, is against the square shape for motion pictures." 21
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"In a more fanciful vein, in early 1930, the Talk of the Trade column in Bioscope told its readers, 'wide film is so close that, on quiet nights, you can hear your projector sprockets stretching.'" 3 #
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The Modern Bioscope Operator of 1913 reminds its readers that "the cinematograph projector is an embodiment of the principles of the lantern slide projector" and that "it is essential that these pictures be shown as stationary."
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In South Africa, many people enjoy watching films at the local bioscope.
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Every Friday, my friends and I go to the bioscope to catch the latest movies.
Synonyms
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A building where people go to watch movies on a big screen
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A building where people go to watch films on a screen
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A building where people go to watch movies
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A large movie theater with many screens showing different films at the same time
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A building where people go to watch movies
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A building where people go to watch films
A cinema with several rooms showing different films
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bioscope comes from the Greek parts bio- 'life' and -scope 'to look'. A helpful way to remember the South African meaning is to think of it as a 'life-watcher'—a place where people went to watch moving pictures that look like life, so it became the name for a movie theatre.