moving picture

Questions about moving picture

What is another word for moving picture?

It depends which moving picture you mean. In the sense “a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement”, the synonyms are movie, film, picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick. Across all 1 sense there are 9 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of moving picture?

WordNet records no antonym for moving picture. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for moving picture come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of moving picture

• Full entry for moving pictureAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for moving pictureWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.