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Meanings of moving-picture show in English

Portuguese
película
Catalan
pel·lícula
Spanish
película
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A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.

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      Usage of moving-picture show in English
      1
      A richly coloured watering-place slid into view, as in a moving-picture show.
      A Traveller in War-Time
      2
      It was like a moving-picture show, where one group chased away another.
      Honey-Sweet
      3
      Kate seemed to see a moving-picture show of her mother's days.
      The Precipice: A Novel
      4
      I haven't been nearer the Nile than a lantern-slide lecture and the moving-picture show.
      The Rim of the Desert
      5
      What do you say to a moving-picture show?
      The Heart of Arethusa
      6
      But I was singing at the moving-picture show, and Mrs. Barsaloux came in there and heard me.
      The Precipice: A Novel
      7
      They oftentimes, in older children, follow the reading of thrilling stories or a visit to an exciting moving-picture show.
      The Mother and Her Child
      8
      At the time of the robbery Rueff was outside the Presidio, in uniform, at a moving-picture show in San Francisco.
      The Lost Road
      9
      In the evenings he shooed out the pair of them to a moving-picture show and once or twice went along.
      The Big-Town Round-Up
      10
      Grace chuckled with glee at the idea of exclusive Ethel Post becoming the proprietor of a moving-picture show at Coney Island.
      Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School / The Record of th...
      11
      But from that distance she watched his movements, watched closely and unceasingly, watched with the interest of a child at a moving-picture show.
      Angel Island
      12
      He came marching up the walk like the hero in a moving-picture show and we thought he was alone till he reached the door.
      At Good Old Siwash
      13
      Danilo had seen it all a thousand times at the moving-picture shows.
      The Blood Red Dawn
      14
      Not far away he may have his choice of theatres and moving-picture shows.
      Society: Its Origin and Development
      15
      And, of course, all I have said of theaters applies with equal force to moving-picture shows.
      America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat
      16
      "By Jove!" cried Holworthy-"andthat you invited her to see the moving-pictureshows?"
      The Red Cross Girl
      Translations for moving-picture show