Cinema vs Opera - What's the difference?
cinema | opera |
(countable) A film.
(countable) A movie theatre, a movie house
(film, uncountable) Film or movies as a group.
(film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.
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, title= (film, uncountable) The art of making films and movies.
(lb) A theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
(lb) The score for such a work.
A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
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A company dedicated to performing such works.
(lb) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembing an opera.
A collection of work (plural of opus).
As a noun cinema
is cinema (the art of making films and movies).cinema
English
(wikipedia cinema)Noun
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema . But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}