Definition of cinematograph in English:
cinematograph
(also kinematograph)
noun ˌsɪnɪˈmatəɡrɑːfˌsɪnəˈmædəɡræf
British historical An apparatus for showing motion-picture films.
Example sentencesExamples
- You shall call a fine film the one that gives you an exalted idea of the cinematograph.
- In 1911, the province of Ontario passed an act to regulate theatres and ‘cinematographs’ and establish a Board of Censors, the first in North America.
- ‘The cinematograph is an invention without a future,’ Louis Lumière declared, ‘but at least it has a past.’
- The cinematograph of the Lumière brothers showed film at the Grand Café of the Boulevard des Capucines.
- The northern variety palaces were, as elsewhere, venues of mass entertainment where the kinematograph was a curiosity attached at the end of the bill.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French cinématographe, from Greek kinēma, kinēmat- 'movement', from kinein 'to move'.
Definition of cinematograph in US English:
cinematograph
(also kinematograph)
nounˌsɪnəˈmædəɡræfˌsinəˈmadəɡraf
British historical An early motion-picture projector.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘The cinematograph is an invention without a future,’ Louis Lumière declared, ‘but at least it has a past.’
- The cinematograph of the Lumière brothers showed film at the Grand Café of the Boulevard des Capucines.
- In 1911, the province of Ontario passed an act to regulate theatres and ‘cinematographs’ and establish a Board of Censors, the first in North America.
- You shall call a fine film the one that gives you an exalted idea of the cinematograph.
- The northern variety palaces were, as elsewhere, venues of mass entertainment where the kinematograph was a curiosity attached at the end of the bill.
Origin
Late 19th century: from French cinématographe, from Greek kinēma, kinēmat- ‘movement’, from kinein ‘to move’.