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Biograph (gcide) | Biograph \Bi"o*graph\, n. [Gr. bi`os life + -graph.]
1. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a
cinematograph. [obsolescent]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. [Cf. Biography.] A biographical sketch. [Rare]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
biograph (gcide) | Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion +
-graph.]
1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine,
combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for
projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly
(25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an
objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the
illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector;
also, any of several other machines or devices producing
moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the {movie
projector} are animatograph, biograph, bioscope,
electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph,
kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope,
zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is
the result of the introduction of the flexible film
into photography in place of glass. --Encyc. Brit.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by
the instrument described above.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
autobiographical (mass) | autobiographical
- autobiografický |
autobiographic (encz) | autobiographic,svéživotopisný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
autobiographical (encz) | autobiographical,autobiografický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
autobiographically (encz) | autobiographically,autobiograficky adv: Zdeněk Brož |
autobiographies (encz) | autobiographies,autobiografie pl. Zdeněk Brož |
autobiography (encz) | autobiography,autobiografie autobiography,vlastní životopis autobiography,životopis n: Zdeněk Brož |
biographer (encz) | biographer,životopisec n: Zdeněk Brož |
biographic (encz) | biographic,životopisný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
biographical (encz) | biographical,životopisný |
biographically (encz) | biographically,biograficky adv: Zdeněk Brožbiographically,životopisně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
biographies (encz) | biographies,biografie pl. Zdeněk Brožbiographies,životopisy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
biography (encz) | biography,biografie n: Zdeněk Brožbiography,životopis |
semiautobiographical (encz) | semiautobiographical, adj: |
Autobiographer (gcide) | Autobiographer \Au`to*bi*og"ra*pher\, n. [Auto- + biographer.]
One who writes his own life or biography.
[1913 Webster] Autobiographic |
Autobiographic (gcide) | Autobiographic \Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic\, Autobiographical
\Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an
autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic
sort." --Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
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Autobiographical (gcide) | Autobiographic \Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic\, Autobiographical
\Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an
autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic
sort." --Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
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Autobiographically (gcide) | Autobiographic \Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic\, Autobiographical
\Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an
autobiographical sketch. "Such traits of the autobiographic
sort." --Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
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Autobiographies (gcide) | Autobiography \Au`to*bi*og"ra*phy\, n.; pl. Autobiographies.
[Auto- + biography.]
A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's
life written by one's self.
[1913 Webster] Autocarpous |
Autobiographist (gcide) | Autobiographist \Au`to*bi*og"ra*phist\, n.
One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]
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Autobiography (gcide) | Autobiography \Au`to*bi*og"ra*phy\, n.; pl. Autobiographies.
[Auto- + biography.]
A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's
life written by one's self.
[1913 Webster] Autocarpous |
Biograph (gcide) | Biograph \Bi"o*graph\, n. [Gr. bi`os life + -graph.]
1. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a
cinematograph. [obsolescent]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. [Cf. Biography.] A biographical sketch. [Rare]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion +
-graph.]
1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine,
combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for
projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly
(25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an
objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the
illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector;
also, any of several other machines or devices producing
moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the {movie
projector} are animatograph, biograph, bioscope,
electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph,
kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope,
zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is
the result of the introduction of the flexible film
into photography in place of glass. --Encyc. Brit.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by
the instrument described above.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Biographer (gcide) | Biographer \Bi*og"ra*pher\, n.
One who writes an account or history of the life of a
particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
[1913 Webster] Biographic |
Biographic (gcide) | Biographic \Bi"o*graph"ic\, Biographical \Bi`o*graph"ic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography. --
Bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
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Biographical (gcide) | Biographic \Bi"o*graph"ic\, Biographical \Bi`o*graph"ic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography. --
Bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
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Biographically (gcide) | Biographic \Bi"o*graph"ic\, Biographical \Bi`o*graph"ic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography. --
Bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
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Biographies (gcide) | Biography \Bi*og"ra*phy\, n.; pl. Biographies. [Gr. ?; bi`os
life + ? to write: cf. F. biographie. See Graphic.]
1. The written history of a person's life.
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2. Biographical writings in general.
[1913 Webster] Biologic |
Biographize (gcide) | Biographize \Bi*og"ra*phize\, v. t.
To write a history of the life of. --Southey.
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Biography (gcide) | Biography \Bi*og"ra*phy\, n.; pl. Biographies. [Gr. ?; bi`os
life + ? to write: cf. F. biographie. See Graphic.]
1. The written history of a person's life.
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2. Biographical writings in general.
[1913 Webster] Biologic |
autobiographer (wn) | autobiographer
n 1: someone who writes their own biography |
autobiographic (wn) | autobiographic
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer;
"he seldom suppressed his autobiographical tendencies"
[syn: autobiographical, autobiographic]
2: relating to or in the style of an autobiography; "they
compiled an autobiographical history of the movement" [syn:
autobiographical, autobiographic] |
autobiographical (wn) | autobiographical
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer;
"he seldom suppressed his autobiographical tendencies"
[syn: autobiographical, autobiographic]
2: relating to or in the style of an autobiography; "they
compiled an autobiographical history of the movement" [syn:
autobiographical, autobiographic] |
autobiography (wn) | autobiography
n 1: a biography of yourself |
biographer (wn) | biographer
n 1: someone who writes an account of a person's life |
biographic (wn) | biographic
adj 1: of or relating to or being biography; "biographical data"
[syn: biographic, biographical] |
biographical (wn) | biographical
adj 1: of or relating to or being biography; "biographical data"
[syn: biographic, biographical] |
biography (wn) | biography
n 1: an account of the series of events making up a person's
life [syn: biography, life, life story, {life
history}] |
semiautobiographical (wn) | semiautobiographical
adj 1: of or relating to a work that combines autobiography and
fiction; "a semiautobiographical novel" |
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