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mov⋅ie

[moo-vee]

–noun

1.	motion picture.

2.	motion-picture theater (often prec. by the): The movie is next-door to the hardware store.

movies,

a.	motion pictures, as an industry (usually prec. by the): The movies have had to raise prices.

b.	motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment: gangster movies.

c.	the exhibition of a motion picture: an evening at the movies.

Origin:
1905–10; mov(ing picture) + -ie

–noun

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.

Origin:
1890–95

Related forms:

motion-picture, adjective

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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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mov·ie (mōō'vē)

1. A sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
2. A connected cinematic narrative represented in this form.
A showing of a movie. Often used in the plural: During the movie, the person in front of me kept talking. Would you like to go to the movies tonight?
movies The movie industry.

[Shortening and alteration of moving picture.]

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