单词 | bioscope |
释义 | bioscopen.ΚΠ 1812 G. Penn Bioscope, or Dial of Life, Explained 23 The bioscope is a dial, or scale, consisting of seven-eighths of a circle, and divided into seventy degrees, answering to the average number of the years of human life; which average number, as we have seen, has in all ages been set at seventy years. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > survey > [noun] > survey of life bioscope1824 1824 W. Bayley (title) Bagman's bioscope: various views of men and manners. 1903 Daily Chron. 12 Oct. 5/2 The difference between the poetic bioscope and the poetic imagination, as applied to sea-gulls. 3. Film. a. Chiefly with capital initial. An early form of moving picture projector similar in operation and use to a cinematograph, producing moving pictures without visible flicker. Cf. biograph n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > apparatus for projecting films kinematoscope1861 tachyscope1889 kinetoscope1894 kinematograph1895 mutoscope1895 biograph1896 cinematograph1896 cinematoscope1896 kinetophone1896 theatroscope1896 vitascope1896 bioscope1897 polyscope1900 cinema1908 cinephone1909 cine projector1916 animatograph1919 1897 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 3 Sept. 1/7 (advt.) This, the Edison Bioscope, is the Machine that made such a hit at Keith's, Boston, and other theatres. 1900 Western Mail (Cardiff) 26 Dec. 3/4 The Bioscope pictures are very entertaining, and many of them are highly diverting. 1908 Cape Times 22 Jan. 6 The Bioscope will project ‘The Boxer Rebellion in China’. 1968 D. Braithwaite Fairground Archit. 21 In the early 1900's there were ‘Bioscope Shows’. 1999 L. McKernan in C. Urban Yank in Brit. 4 He [sc. Charles Urban] based his reputation on the reliable Bioscope projector. b. Chiefly South African. A building in which films are shown, (in early use) spec. using a Bioscope; a cinema. Also: the film itself. Frequently without article, as to go to bioscope. Now archaic or historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] living picture1851 kineograph1891 motion picture1891 picture1894 animatograph1896 cinematograph1896 moving picture1896 kinetogram1897 film1899 bioscope1902 action film1909 cinema1909 movie1910 photodrama1910 photoplay1910 movie picture1913 pic1913 screenplay1913 photonovel1916 flick1926 moom pitcher1929 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] bioscope1902 picture house1906 picture theatre1906 kinema1908 Picturedrome1908 picture palace1908 cinema1911 movie1911 movie house1912 movie palace1913 movie theatre1913 theatre1923 Odeon1930 1902 Advertisers' Guardian 20 Most people are aware of what an animated picture is—call it a cinematograph, bioscope or what you will. 1915 Cape 1 No. 10. 11 They extended to her facetious invitations to the theatre and the bioscope. 1950 L. G. Green In Land of Afternoon i. 12 He denounced newspapers and bioscopes. 1974 Drum (Johannesburg) 8 Apr. 35 My hobbies are reading, listening to the radio, going to bioscope. 1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 76 All they talked about..was boyfriends and makeup and who was going to bioscope with whom on Saturday. 2007 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 12 Oct. 21 In its heyday people would come from all over Soweto and Eldorado Park to catch a show at the bioscope. 2018 TimesSelect (S. Afr.) (Electronic ed.) 29 Mar. (heading) Won't you take us to the bioscope? The films opening in your cinema this week. Derivatives bioˈscopic adj. now rare of or relating to a bioscope (sense 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [adjective] > apparatus kinetoscopic1894 bioscopic1899 mutoscopic1899 1899 Liverpool Mercury 16 June 9/3 The ponderous programme..possessing an exhibition of bioscopic living pictures. 1914 Times 25 May 11/3 Give a coherent and rational explanation of what the bioscopic dramatist was driving at. 1928 Daily Tel. 18 Sept. 6 It is excellent to have bioscopic presentations of the eminent, but Herr Ludwig's film is too long. 2018 A. Bošković in H. Veivo et al. Beyond Given Knowl. 62 Lissitzky's fascination with the visuality and kineticism of the cinema partly explains the origins of his concept of the ‘bioscopic book’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1812 |
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