Academy
(n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences |
Academy
(n.) An institution for the study of higher learning |
Academy
(n.) A place of training |
Academy
(n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science |
Academy
(n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught |
Award
(v. t.) To give by sentence or judicial determination |
Award
(v. i.) To determine |
Award
(v. t.) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted. |
Award
(v. t.) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators |
Electro-motion
(n.) The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit |
Excito-motion
(n.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. |
Film
(n.) A thin skin |
Film
(n.) A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. |
Film
(v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. |
Ideo-motion
(n.) An ideo-motor movement. |
Link motion
() A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will |
Motion
(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position |
Motion
(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion. |
Motion
(n.) Direction of movement |
Motion
(n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything |
Motion
(n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions |
Motion
(n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress |
Motion
(n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. |
Motion
(n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. |
Motion
(n.) A puppet show or puppet. |
Motion
(v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand |
Motion
(v. i.) To make proposal |
Motion
(v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head |
Motion
(v. t.) To propose |
Photography
(n.) The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like. |
Photography
(n.) The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light. |
Picture
(n.) The art of painting |
Picture
(n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc. |
Picture
(n.) An image or resemblance |
Picture
(v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of |
Self-motion
(n.) Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse |
award
awarding | a grant made by a law court, he criticized the awarding of compensation by the court |
| motion movement move | the act of changing location from one place to another, police controlled the motion of the crowd, the movement of people from the farms to the cities, his move put him directly in my path |
progress
progression
procession advance
advancement forward motion
onward motion | the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) |
motion
movement
move motility | a change of position that does not entail a change of location, the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise, movement is a sign of life, an impatient move of his hand, gastrointestinal motility |
rotation
rotary motion | the act of rotating as if on an axis, the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music |
| film festival | a cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year) |
| photography | the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies |
time and motion study
time-and-motion study
time-motion study
motion study
time study
work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
photography
picture taking | the act of taking and printing photographs |
roentgenography
Xay photography | radiography that uses Xays to produce a roentgenogram |
filming
cinematography
motion-picture photography | the act of making a film |
moviemaking
movie making
film making | the production of movies |
film editing
cutting | the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film |
| academy | a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge |
cinema
movie theater
movie theatre
movie house
picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
face card
picture card
court card | one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face |
| film | a thin coating or layer, the table was covered with a film of dust |
| film photographic film | photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion, used to make negatives or transparencies |
| film plastic film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things |
| film advance | a mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector |
gallery art gallery
picture gallery | a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited |
Identikit
Identikit picture | a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police, uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought |
kinescope
picture tube
television tube | a cathodeay tube in a television receiver, translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen |
motion-picture camera
movie camera
cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
motion-picture film
movie film
cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
movie projector
cine projector
film projector | projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures |
| orthochromatic film | a photographic film sensitive to green and blue and violet light |
painting
picture | graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface, a small painting by Picasso, he bought the painting as an investment, his pictures hang in the Louvre |
| panchromatic film | photographic film sensitive to light of all colors (including red) |
| perpetual motion machine | a machine that can continue to do work indefinitely without drawing energy from some external source, impossible under the law of conservation of energy |
photograph
photo
exposure
picture pic | a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide, recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material |
picture
image
icon
ikon | a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface, they showed us the pictures of their wedding, a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them |
| picture book | a book consisting chiefly of pictures |
| picture frame | a framework in which a picture is mounted |
| picture hat | a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim |
| picture rail | rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures |
| picture window | a large window with a single pane (usually overlooking a view) |
pixel
pel
picture element | (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution |
roentgenogram
X ray
Xay
Xay picture
Xay photograph | a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays, used in medical diagnosis |
| roll film | photographic film wound on a spool |
cling film
clingfilm
Saran Wrap | a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself, used for wrapping food |
| soap film | a film left on objects after they have been washed in soap |
| sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
stereo stereoscopic picture
stereoscopic photograph | two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together |
| wedding picture | photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding |
| Xay film | photographic film used to make Xay pictures |
| picture | a typical example of some state or quality, the very picture of a modern general, she was the picture of despair |
Kepler's law
Kepler's law of planetary motion | (astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler |
Newton's law of motion
Newton's law
law of motion | one of three basic laws of classical mechanics |
first law of motion
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's first law | a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external force |