Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mechanical device, invented by Herman Casler, for projecting upon a screen pictures of moving objects.
- noun A biographical sketch or notice; a brief biography.
- To write a biograph of; prepare a brief biographical sketch of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolescent An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph.
- noun Rare A biographical sketch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A
biographical essay. - noun An early device to show
moving pictures on a screen. - verb rare, transitive To write a
biography of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The toy called the biograph, which reflects pictures for us in a dazzling and moving continuity, so that we can see scenes of human life in action, is merely a hint to us that every scene of every life is reflected in a ceaseless moving panorama
The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889
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Until instantaneous photography was introduced, a little more than twenty-five years ago (by the discovery of the means of increasing the sensitiveness of a photographic plate), and gradually became familiar to everyone in the exhibitions known as the "biograph" or
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As everyone knows, the so-called "biograph" pictures are produced by an enormous series of consecutive instantaneous photographs taken on a continuous transparent flexible film or ribbon.
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Tom Nolan's biograph of Ross Macdonald Millar is a masterpiece. posted by Ed Gorman @ 2:18 PM
Archive 2008-10-01 Ed Gorman 2008
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Tom Nolan's biograph of Ross Macdonald Millar is a masterpiece. posted by Ed Gorman @ 2:18 PM
Margaret Millar Ed Gorman 2008
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DCB/DBC Online http:www.biograph.ca/EN/Index.html.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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DCB/DBC Online http:www.biograph.ca/EN/Index.html.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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"One of the many items my so-censored biograph left out was that my only child died a-borning, from his mother's womb untimely ripped, ripping it and rendering her completely barren."
The Ship Who Sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
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That damned biograph left too much unsaid, particularly apparent to a brawn trainee.
The Ship Who Sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
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With an almost savage twist she turned on the audio, sitting stiffly erect and motionless as the tape played back, either deaf or impervious to the biograph.
The Ship Who Sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
chained_bear commented on the word biograph
A device, invented in 1896 and patented by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company (which is still in existence), that was a combination motion-picture camera and projector using 70-millimeter film to increase picture sharpness over the Edison-owned Kinetograph (recording device) and Kinetoscope (viewing device). Bio- meaning life, and -graph meaning drawing or picture.
March 7, 2007