MOVIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does movie mean? 

• MOVIE (noun)
  The noun MOVIE 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: MOVIE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVIE (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 ("movie" 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 "movie"):

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 "movie"):

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)

 Context examples 

An experiment by researchers of Ohio State University focused on movie characters with guns.

(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A second image and a movie show the comet after the image has been processed.

(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)

Astronomers have now used Chandra observations from 2000 through 2015 to create the longest movie of the Tycho remnant’s X-ray evolution over time, using five different images.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

You may feel it’s a little like the movie Groundhog Day when talks are repeated over and over in circular fashion, like a strange dream.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Under a low-pressure sodium (LPS) lamp, which makes everything appear monochromatic, like a black and white movie with a brownish-yellow filter, everyone looked sick.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

Astronomers use sophisticated algorithms to search the data for these dips in brightness, and in particular, to correct for the spacecraft’s small movements in space—this is the 'flickering' of the pixels seen in the movie.

(Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor, NASA)

The line moving across the middle of the movie is the entrance slit for IRIS's spectrograph, an instrument that can split light into its many wavelengths – a technique that ultimately allows scientists to measure temperature, velocity and density of the solar material behind the slit.

(Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material, NASA)

Simulations and movies like these really help us visualize what Einstein meant when he said that gravity warps the fabric of space and time,” explains Jeremy Schnittman, who generated these gorgeous images using custom software at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.###!!!###

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

Although the force of the wind on Mars is not as strong as portrayed in an early scene in the movie The Martian, dust lofted during storms could affect electronics and health, as well as the availability of solar energy.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

Sgr A* also impacts its surroundings through occasional outbursts from its vicinity that result in the expulsion of material away from the giant black hole, as shown in the later part of the movie.

(Scientists Take Viewers to the Center of the Milky Way, NASA)