bioscope
noun [ C ] old-fashioned (also Bioscope) uk/ˈbaɪ.ə.skəʊp/ us/ˈbaɪ.oʊ.skoʊp/
旧式电影放映机
an old word for a film camera or film projector (= a device for showing films on a screen)
There are instructions for making your own simple bioscope. 有说明书教你自己制作简单的电影放映机。
(also bioscope show)（旧时）电影流动放映
in the past, an entertainment consisting of a film show that travelled from place to place
The heyday of the Bioscope was from the late 1890s until World War I. 流动电影放映在1890年代末到一战前这段时期最受欢迎。
mainly South African电影院
a cinema
There wasn’t much to do in George itself except visit the local cinema, known for some obscure reason as the "bioscope". 在乔治这个地方，除了去当地电影院以外，并没有太多可做的事情，不知道什么原因，当地的电影院被称为 "bioscope"。
mainly Indian English 电影
a film
I told him I would get a thousand rupees when the bioscope I was in was released. 我告诉他，等我演了个角色的电影出来后，我会得到一千卢比。
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- A bioscope is a movie camera belonging to an earlier era, before digitalization.
- He made a documentary about a travelling bioscope projectionist in India.
- His bioscope show was on the Yorkshire fair circuit.
- It was his view that for the person "in search of different phases of human nature there is no better place to find objects of study than to visit a bioscope show".
- He's like someone you'd see in a bioscope drama.