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# cinema

«cinema» in Mova's school dictionary: **a building where people watch films on a big screen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cinema, cinemas; the cinema)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cinema is a building where people watch films on a big screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#m1)

2) «The cinema» or «the movies» can mean going to see a film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#m2)

3) Cinema is also the art of making films. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: seats in rows (rows × seats), tickets and prices, films that start and end at times (end time = start + length); popcorn prices. In everyday life: going to the cinema with friends, birthday cinema trips, film ratings for ages. Phrases: «go to the cinema», «at the cinema», «cinema ticket».

### examples

- The cinema has 15 rows of 20 seats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#x1)
- A ticket costs 7 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#x2)
- The film starts at 4 pm and lasts 2 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#x3)
- How many tickets were sold? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#x4)
- We went to the cinema for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#x5)
- Please turn off your phone in the cinema. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#x6)
- In the USA a cinema is called a movie theater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#x7)
- The cinema was full for the new film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/#x8)

### note

«Cinema» (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand), «movie theater» (USA). Maths: seats in rows give multiplication; times give an end time. Trap: a film of 1 hour 45 minutes from 4:30 pm ends at 6:15 pm, not 5:75.

### In the corpora

- [Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/6/)
- [Some are advice for parents; some are the law, and a cinema can refuse to let you in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/9/)
- [Parents decide what children watch at home, and cinemas must follow the age rules.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/6/)
- [Cinemas earn a big part of their money from snacks, because much of the ticket money goes to the film company.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/14/)
- [A film is many still pictures, called frames, shown quickly, traditionally 24 every second in the cinema.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cinema» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinema/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.