cinema
see also FILM, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE
- a building where people go to see a film: cinema (AmE movie house, movie theater)
- a kind of cinema, especially in America, where people can stay in their cars to watch a film: drive-in
- the part of the cinema where people sit to watch the film: auditorium
- the space between the rows of seats: aisle
- the flat surface on which a film is shown: screen
- the machine that projects films on to the screen: projector
- if you go to see a film at the cinema, you go* to the cinema, go* to the pictures (AmE go* to the movies)
Let's go to the pictures tonight, shall we?
- a film which is at a local cinema at the present time is on
What's on? ◎ This film is going to be on for another week.
- to put on a film at a cinema: show* sth, screen sth
The Odeon is showing 'Gone With The Wind' again.
- a short break between parts of a film when it is shown in a cinema: interval (AmE intermission)
We ate ice cream during the interval.
- the group of people who are in a cinema to see a film: audience
- a man/woman who shows people to their seats: usher/usherette
- a person who often goes to the cinema: cinema-goer (AmE movie-goer)
※ more on audiences AUDIENCE
- when you pay to go into the cinema, you buy a ticket
Keep your ticket in case you need to get back in.
- the cost of going into the cinema: admission
Admission: ※£4.50
- the place where you buy a cinema ticket: box office, ticket office
※ more on getting a ticket TICKET
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