Word Meanings - PHOTOPLAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.

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• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• MOVE
  To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of
• MOVIE
  A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl.
• PICTURESQUISH
  Somewhat picturesque.
• MOVING PICTURE
  A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision,
• PICTURER
  One who makes pictures; a painter. Fuller.
• MOVENT
  Moving. Grew.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• MOVING
  1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power. 2. Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. I sang an old moving story.
• MOVINGLY
  In a moving manner. Addison.
• PICTURE
  1. The art of painting; representation by painting. Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced
• PICTURESQUE
  Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as,
• PICTURED
  Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
• MOVEMENT
  A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement
• MOVABLY
  In a movable manner or condition.
• MOVABILITY
  Movableness.
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• IMPICTURED
  Pictured; impressed. Spenser.
• THERMOVOLTAIC
  Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.
• UNMOVABLY
  Immovably. J. Ellis.
• IMMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.
• COUNTERMOVE
  To move in a contrary direction to.
• SELF-MOVED
  Moved by inherent power., without the aid of external impulse.
• IRREMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.