projectionist
- noun
- /prəˈdʒɛkʃənɪst/
- My day job is a projectionist at the movie theater next door.
- a movie projectionist
- a film projectionist
- theater projectionist
Chuck Silver's called the projectionist for Sid Sheinberg's office and was like, look, Sid doesn't want to watch this.
- Chuck Silver's called the projectionist for Sid Sheinberg's office and was like, look, Sid doesn't want to watch this.
Examples
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Less than twenty years later, I was the best projectionist in New York.
Fiction book (1993) -
The projectionist quickly adjusted the settings to ensure the movie played smoothly on the big screen.
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And then I went to World War II, and I was a film projectionist on army transport ships.
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Last year alone, he worked as a cook, movie projectionist, and beer bottler.
Fiction book (1994) -
I was still working as the projectionist at the Star of Bethany drive-in.
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He had one part-time job as a projectionist.
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The movie and outtakes had been offered to the National Geographic Society in 1971 by the widow of the projectionist.
Academic text (1993) -
A blind girl had just handed Charlie Chaplin a flower, and my father, the projectionist, was supposed to switch reels.
Fiction book (2001) -
Whitehead went back to work for Walnut as the chain's head San Diego projectionist in 1978.
Blog text (8) -
Hard times bankrupted Justin's pharmacist father, and Barbara's father worked as a motion picture projectionist after his business failed.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
A person who projects pictures with a magic lantern for an audience
Surface Forms
Morphology
projectionist = projection (transparent) = project + ion + ist
The agentive suffix '-ist' clearly forms 'person who operates projection'; the base 'projection' directly names the activity.
Etymology
Projectionist comes from project, made of pro- 'forward' and ject 'to throw', and the ending -ist means 'one who'. Think of a projector as 'throwing' light and pictures forward onto the screen, so a projectionist is the person who runs that machine.