[moo-vee] 
| 1. | motion picture. |
| 2. | motion-picture theater (often prec. by the): The movie is next-door to the hardware store. |
| 3. | movies,
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| 1. | a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion-picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion-picture projector) in such rapid succession as to give the illusion of natural movement. |
| 2. | a play, event, or the like, presented in this form. |
| 3. | motion pictures, the art, technique, or business of producing motion pictures. |
| mov·ie (mōō'vē) n.
[Shortening and alteration of moving picture.] |
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