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SHORT SUBJECT
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("short subject" is a kind of...):
film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "short subject"):
animated cartoon; cartoon; toon (a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence)
newsreel (a short film and commentary about current events)
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