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.