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Pictures vs Camera - What's the difference?

pictures | camera |

As nouns the difference between pictures and camera

is that pictures is or pictures can be (dated|british) the cinema while camera is camera.

As a verb pictures

is (picture).

pictures

English

Noun

(head)
  • Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (dated, British) The cinema
  • We go to the pictures every Saturday night.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (picture)
  • Anagrams

    *

    camera

    English

    (wikipedia camera)

    Noun

    (cameras)
  • A device for taking still or moving pictures or s.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders
  • , title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.}}
  • (video games) The game or simulation.
  • * 2003 , Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds
  • If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.
  • * 2006 , Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete
  • I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

    Derived terms

    * cameraman * ! * on camera * off camera * cine camera or * digital camera * movie camera * pinhole camera * video camera