cinematograph
cinematograph noun: a camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.
Noun
cinematograph (plural cinematographs)
- A camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.
- “Oh, you mean the cinematograph—the pictures of prize-fights and steamers. I’ve seen ’em up country.”
“Biograph or cinematograph was what I was alludin’ to. London Bridge with the omnibuses—a troopship goin’ to the war—marines on parade at Portsmouth an’ the Plymouth Express arrivin’ at...1904, Rudyard Kipling, “Mrs Bathurst”, in Traffics and Discoveries, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 326 - Flashes from the other groups of monitors and the heavy siege guns keep the whole sky lit up, flicking their flashes on the cloud-ridden celestial screen like a badly worked cinematograph.1919, Stanley W. Coxon, chapter 13, in Dover During the Dark Days, London: John Lane, page 222
- Synonyms:
- kinematograph
- “Oh, you mean the cinematograph—the pictures of prize-fights and steamers. I’ve seen ’em up country.”
Verb
cinematograph (third-person singular simple present cinematographs, present participle cinematographing, simple past and past participle cinematographed)
- To employ the techniques of cinematography.
cinematograph meaning in Tamil
cinematograph in Tamil
- இயக்கப்படம்வரைபெட்டி, திரைப்படக் கருவி
Synonyms of cinematograph
Forms of cinematograph
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cinematographs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cinematographs |
| present participle | cinematographing |
| past participle | cinematographed |
| past | cinematographed |
Origin of cinematograph
From French cinématographe.
Words formed from cinematograph
Questions about cinematograph
- What does cinematograph mean?
- Cinematograph means a camera that could develop its own film and served as its own projector.
- What is cinematograph in Tamil?
- Cinematograph in Tamil is இயக்கப்படம்வரைபெட்டி, திரைப்படக் கருவி. See Cinematograph meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cinematograph?
- Cinematograph can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of cinematograph?
- The plural of cinematograph is cinematographs.
Words near cinematograph in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cinematograph (page history and authors); cinematograph (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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