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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.
3. 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.
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Origin:
1905–10; mov(ing picture) + -ie
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motion picture

 
–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.
Also called movie, moving picture.

Origin:
1890–95

Related forms:
motion-picture, adjective
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.
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mov·ie   (mōō'vē)   
n.  

    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.

  2. 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?

  3. movies The movie industry.


[Shortening and alteration of moving picture.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
movies

  1. n.
    a case of diarrhea. (Because it keeps you on the move, going to the john.) : A case of the movies kept me going all night.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

movie 
1912 (perhaps 1908), shortened form of moving picture (1896).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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