motion picture

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

film moving picture pic picture flick movie picture show motion-picture show moving-picture show production show feature silent cartoon flicker

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Antonyms

still

Hypernyms

show production product

Hyponyms

3-D feature musical documentary feature film infotainment

Examples

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. Walt Disney

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. Francis Ford Coppola

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture. Zack Snyder

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made. Alfred Hitchcock

Jews have always controlled the business [...]. The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada [...] is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind. Henry Ford

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [hard-core pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. Potter Stewart

Close letter words and terms

motion of no confidence motion of someone's ocean motion parallax motion picture art motion picture director motion picture industry