Movies vs. Books — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Movies and Books
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Movies
A recorded sequence of film or video images displayed on a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
Books
A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
Movies
Any work, as of art or entertainment, having this form, usually including a soundtrack
A movie about the cost of war.
Books
An e-book or other electronic resource structured like a book.
Movies
The presentation of such a work
During the movie, the person in front of me kept talking.
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Books
A printed or written literary work
Did you ever finish writing that book?.
Movies
A long narrative work of this form
A television channel that shows foreign movies.
Books
A main division of a larger printed or written work
A book of the Old Testament.
Movies
Movies Screenings of movies at a public theater
Would you like to go to the movies tonight?.
Books
A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
Movies
Movies The movie industry.
Books
Books Financial or business records considered as a group
Checked the expenditures on the books.
Movies
Plural of movie
Books
A libretto.
Movies
(by extension) The cinema
We are going to the movies for our anniversary.
Books
The script of a play.
Books
The Bible.
Books
The Koran.
Books
A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based
Runs the company by the book.
Books
Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
Books
The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task
We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
Books
(Informal) Factual information, especially of a private nature
What's the book on him?.
Books
A pack of like or similar items bound together
A book of matches.
Books
A record of bets placed on a race.
Books
(Games) The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.
Books
To arrange for or purchase (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
Books
To arrange a reservation, as for a hotel room, for (someone)
Book me into the best hotel in town.
Books
To hire or engage
Booked a band for Saturday night.
Books
To list or register in a book
Booked the revenue from last month's sales.
Books
To list or record appointments or engagements in
A calendar that was booked solid on Tuesday.
Books
To record information about (a suspected offender) after arrest in preparation for arraignment, usually including a criminal history search, fingerprinting, and photographing.
Books
(Sports) To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.
Books
To designate a time for; schedule
Let's book a meeting for next month.
Books
To be hired for or engaged in
The actor has booked his next movie with that director.
Books
To make a reservation
Book early if you want good seats.
Books
Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience
Has book smarts but not street smarts.
Books
Appearing in a company's financial records
Book profits.
Books
Plural of book
Books
(accounting) Accounting records.
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