2. Noun. (dated British) The cinema ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of picture) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pictures
1. picture [v] - See also: picture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pictures
Literary usage of Pictures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Moving pictures — Continued What Is to become of the theater? ... See Moving
pictures for children Moving pictures, Colored Color movies are here. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1905)
"The fact is, that in case of reagent H, the effect of both the sad and comic
fore-pictures is entirely covered by the loss in funniness which comes from the ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Sewanee R Playground 11:257-S At; '17 Moving pictures In church work Motion ...
Relig Educ 13:421-2 D '18 Moving pictures for children Program for dealing ..."
4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"CONCERNING THE pictures CONCERNING THE pictures OF THIS BOOK AND A FEW WORDS
ABOUT THE ... pictures and photographs of famous personages and equally famous ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The brother was a theatre scene-painter, and had discovered the art of fixing
upon metal the pictures of objects reflected by the sun. ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1895)
"A new mechanical color book containing 5 cut out pictures and 24 type pages, ...
All the pictures revolve, one sliding off and showing the next. ..."
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