Movie and Theatre

Movie

Movie noun - A story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track.

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Theatre and movie are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Theatre" instead a noun "Movie".

Theatre noun - A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented.

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Movie and theatre are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Movie" instead a noun "Theatre".

live	live movie	live theatre
full	full movie	full theatre
best	best movie	best theatre
particular	particular movie	particular theatre
Other adjectives: complete, proper, entire, serious, famous, silent, greatest, different, western, cheesy.

Quite often happens in Bottom, both in the TV show and the theatre/movie spin-offs.

Source: Ass Shove
Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin showed that rather than following theatre and movie stars, cinema can communicate deeper and more intricate meaning via montages and editing techniques, greatly expanding the vocabulary beyond the realist limitations of theatre and literature.

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This one is particularly egregious: most actors, even American ones, probably would spell it "theatre", unless they were specifically referring to a movie house.

Source: Conviction by Contradiction

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