moving-picture show
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈmuːvɪŋ ˈpɪktʃər ʃoʊ/
- Archaic
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película
- My friends and I lined up to buy tickets for the latest moving-picture show in town.
- see a moving-picture show
Examples
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It worked well as a sort of 'moving picture show,' a place where I could expound on what the kids and I watched on Disney Channel that day, or my top five animated movies," she says.
Academic text (2009) -
Take them to see the moving picture show at the People's Theater and don't you dare come back until the picture is over.
Fiction book (1990) -
Nobody is going to give you any money to spend on moving-picture shows.
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- To a moving-picture show.
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♫ And when I go to see, A moving picture show ♫
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So we trouped down to the movie, hurrying to get there because we couldn't imagine what it might be like to see a moving picture show.
Fiction book (1990) -
As biologist Daniel Botkin has argued, the natural world is not "a Kodachrome still-life," but rather "a moving picture show," ever-changing and, at times, completely random.
Blog text (26) -
And painting, connected as it was to a long tradition of craftsmanship and handwork, stood opposed to the newer urban entertainments, like the moving-picture show, that were delivered by mechanical means.
Academic text (2011) -
We went to the cinema to enjoy a fantastic moving-picture show together.
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Last night, we watched an old moving-picture show that made us laugh and cry.
Synonyms
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1.0
A story told with moving pictures on a screen
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1.0
A story shown as moving images in a cinema or on screen
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7.7
A movie shown on a screen in a theatre or at home
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1.1
The art of making and showing films
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3.0
A story that uses moving images and sound, like a movie
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4.1
A casual word for a movie you watch at a cinema
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8.1
A movie shown in a cinema or on screen
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2.5
A film shown in a cinema for people to watch
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3.5
A movie shown on a screen that tells a story
A public show where moving pictures and sound tell a story, like a film at a cinema
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
moving-picture + show
The phrase is compositionally clear: a 'moving picture' is a picture that moves (i.e. a film) and 'show' denotes an entertainment event, so a 'moving-picture show' is a show of moving pictures (a movie). This structure follows ordinary English compounding and is cross-linguistically obvious, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase moving-picture show comes from early entertainment when a quick series of still pictures was shown so they seemed to be moving. That's why the phrase means a 'film' or 'movie' shown on a screen.