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  cine

  noun

  a film; movie.
• cine-
  cine-

  a combining form meaning “motion picture,” used in the formation of compound words.

cine

¹ American  

[sin-ee, sin-ay] / ˈsɪn i, ˈsɪn eɪ /

Or ciné

noun

1. a film; movie.

2. a movie theater.

   I was surprised to run into Charlie at the cine—I thought he didn't like art films.

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cine- ² American  

1. a combining form meaning “motion picture,” used in the formation of compound words.

   cineradiograph.

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cine- British  

combining form

1. indicating motion picture or cinema

   cine camera

   cinephotography

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Etymology

Origin of cine¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; short for cinema

Origin of cine-²

Extracted from cinema

Example Sentences

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Fast forward to April this year, and back in Aberdeen Terry Cheyne was getting old cine footage he had filmed transferred onto DVD.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024

Then in the 1980s came videotape - which proved a threat to cine film.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023

This was at the New York Film Festival, during a conversation about form and content with Pier Paolo Pasolini and other cine luminaries.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2017

When I was at secondary school, our geography teacher, Mr Woosnam, would show reel-to-reel cine films from exotic and remote parts of the world.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2014

“Come on, Ada Belle—” “That’s a fact, Jean Louise. Betcha the only reason Fran- cine ain’t is she ain’t started yet.”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Devised by Dr. Russell Reynolds of London, this consists of a very bright fluoroscopic screen on which the direct X-ray picture is thrown and there photographed as it changes by a cine- camera.

From Time Magazine Archive

Related Words

• cinema
• feature
• film
• flick
• motion picture
• picture
• show
• videotape