MOTION PICTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does motion picture mean? 

• MOTION PICTURE (noun)
  The noun MOTION PICTURE has 1 sense:

1. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

  Familiarity information: MOTION PICTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTION PICTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show

Context example:

the film was shot on location

Hypernyms ("motion picture" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

show (a social event involving a public performance or entertainment)

Meronyms (parts of "motion picture"):

episode; sequence (film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie)

scene; shot (a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film)

credits (a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film))

caption; subtitle (translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen)

credit (an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work)

Domain member category:

dub (provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language)

synchronise; synchronize (make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action)

film; shoot; take (make a film or photograph of something)

tape; videotape (record on videotape)

reshoot (shoot again)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "motion picture"):

cinema verite (a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director)

musical; musical comedy; musical theater (a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing)

3-D; 3D; three-D (a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance)

talkie; talking picture (a movie with synchronized speech and singing)

slow motion (a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate)

silent movie; silent picture; silents (a movie without a soundtrack)

rough cut (the first print of a movie after preliminary editing)

skin flick (a pornographic movie)

film noir (a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters)

telefilm (a movie that is made to be shown on television)

docudrama; documentary; documentary film; infotainment (a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event)

short subject (a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature)

shoot-'em-up (a movie featuring shooting and violence)

coming attraction (a movie that is advertised to draw customers)

collage film (a movie that juxtaposes different kinds of footage)

home movie (a film made at home by an amateur photographer)

final cut (the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer)

feature; feature film (the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater)