Word Study
cinematograph
CIDE DICTIONARY
cinematograph, n. [Gr. , , motion + -graph.].
- an older name for a
movie projector , a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for themovie projector areanimatograph ,biograph ,bioscope ,electrograph ,electroscope ,kinematograph ,kinetoscope ,veriscope ,vitagraph ,vitascope ,zoögyroscope ,zoöpraxiscope , etc."The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass." [Webster 1913 Suppl.] - A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cinematograph, (also kinematograph) n. an apparatus for showing motion-picture films.
Etymology
F cin{eacute}matographe f. Gk kinema -atos movement f. kineo move
ROGET THESAURUS
cinematograph
Appearance
N appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil, lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau, display, exposure, mise en sc ne, rising of the curtain, phantasm, phantom, pageant, spectacle, peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show, ombres chinoises, magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views, biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures, panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama, coup de theatre, jeu de theatre, pageantry, insignia, aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming, shape, guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor, presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing, point of view, light, lineament feature trait lines, outline, outside, contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz, cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy, outside, apparent, seeming, ostensible, on view, apparently, to all seeming, to all appearance, ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie, at the first blush, at first sight, in the eyes of, to the eye, editio princeps.For further exploring for "cinematograph" in Webster Dictionary Online
