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Picture show   /pˈɪktʃər ʃoʊ/   Listen
Picture show

noun
1.
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.  Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture.  "The film was shot on location"



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"Picture show" Quotes from Famous Books



... the tickets for my picture show, which I told you about yesterday evening. I send them now, instead of waiting to give them to you to-night, at Lavvie's suggestion. She thinks only three days' notice, from now to Saturday, rather short, and considers it advisable to save even a few hours, so as ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins

... to buy a ticket at the picture show when a stranger bumped her shoulder. She glared at him, feeling ...
— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous

... poor sit snugly at home while sterling exchange falls ten points in a day. Do they care? Not a bit. An adverse balance of trade washes over the nation like a flood. Who have to mop it up? The rich. Call money rushes up to a hundred per cent, and the poor can still sit and laugh at a ten cent moving picture show ...
— Further Foolishness • Stephen Leacock

... never be such art, unless it be the great, idealistic, humanitarian, cosmopolitan art of the Moving Picture Show. ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys

... docked was a little colony of summer cottages, and not far off was an amusement resort, including a moving picture show. ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake • Laura Lee Hope


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