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the cinema

cinema \cinema\ n.

  1. the art of creating motion pictures; as, this story would be good cinema; -- often used in the phrase the cinema.

    Syn: the film.

  2. a theater where motion pictures are shown.

    Syn: movie theater, movie theatre, movie house, picture palace.

  3. same as motion picture. [Chiefly Brit.]

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The Cinema

The Cinema is an American Indie pop band from Tempe, Arizona and Atlanta, Georgia. Members of the band include Lydia vocalist, Leighton Antelman, and producer and songwriter, Matt Malpass. The Cinema released its debut album titled "My Blood Is Full of Airplanes" on September 13, 2011. The band's second full-length album, "Talking In Your Sleep", was released on December 16, 2014.

Usage examples of "the cinema".

It's true, but: the kind of fear you feel when you're on a film set for the very first time and there, about to make his entrance, is one of the living legends of the cinema.

If we did go to the cinema, my hope was that the film would be better than the one I saw in Camden.

Of course, I had visited the cinema the previous afternoon and had rehearsed an amusing commentary to be whispered at Rachel in the dark.

We didn't stop until we got to a side street and we went in there and slowly started to work our way back to where the MG was parked up the hill from the cinema.

The people who worked in the cinema and at the port and in the factories the aqueduct permitted needed places to live and people to sell them things.

Listen, George and I saw a thief smash a window coming home from the cinema last night and steal something out of the antique shop.

A fourth murder was committedthe murder of a man named George Earlsfieldit was supposed in mistake for a man named Downes, who was something of the same build and who was sitting near him in the cinema.

I turned the corner at the bottom of the stairs to find a dour Scots sergeant of military police standing outside the cinema.

On New Year’s Eve 1961, Brady took her to the cinema, then back to her parent’s home to see in the New Year with a bottle of whisky.