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camera
1[ kam-er-uh, kam-ruh ]
noun
- a device for capturing a photographic image or recording a video, using film or digital memory.
- (in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses.
adjective
- Printing. camera-ready.
camera
2[ kam-er-uh ]
noun
, plural cam·er·ae [kam, -, uh, -ree].
- a judge's private office.
camera
/ ˈkæmrə; ˈkæmərə /
noun
- an optical device consisting of a lens system set in a light-proof construction inside which a light-sensitive film or plate can be positioned See also cine camera digital camera
- television the equipment used to convert the optical image of a scene into the corresponding electrical signals
- See camera obscura
- -erae-əˌriː a judge's private room
- in camera
- law relating to a hearing from which members of the public are excluded
- in private
- off cameranot within an area being filmed
- on camera(esp of an actor) being filmed
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Word History and Origins
Origin of camera1
First recorded in 1730–40; shortening of camera obscura ( def ); 1840-45 camera 1fordef 1; utimately from Latin camera “vaulted room, vault”; see camera 2( def )
Origin of camera2
First recorded in 1630–40; for earlier sense “vaulted room,” from Latin, from Greek kamára “vault, vaulted room”; see chamber ( def )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of camera1
C18: from Latin: vault, from Greek kamara
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Idioms and Phrases
Idioms
- in camera,
- Law. in the privacy of a judge's chambers.
- privately.
- off camera,
- out of the range of a video camera, as a television or motion picture camera:
The stunt woman was waiting just off camera for her cue to enter the scene.
- (of an actor) in one’s private rather than professional life:
The two co-stars are best friends off camera.
- on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera:
Be sure to look alert when you are on camera.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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