Definitions for camera

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camera cam·er·a

Spelling: [kam-er-uh, kam-ruh]

IPA: /ˈkæm ər ə, ˈkæm rə/

Camera is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in camera (aacemr).

Definitions for camera

noun

1. a device for capturing a photographic image or recording a video, using film or digital memory.
2. (in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses.
3. a judge's private office.

Idioms

1. off camera, out of the range of a video camera, as a television or motion picture camera: (of an actor) in one’s private rather than professional life:
2. on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera:
3. in camera, Law. in the privacy of a judge's chambers. privately.

adjective

1. Printing. camera-ready.

Origin of camera

1730-35; shortening of camera obscura; 1840-45 for def 1; utimately Latin camera vaulted room, vault; see

Examples for camera

He is like a camera with the cap on—he never gets a new impression.

But how the form of such a woman must be dwarfed in the camera of such a man's mind!

"Oh, that's all right," said Mr. Trenton, swinging his camera over his shoulder.

We also see her physically battling Sheriff Clark, but the camera focuses on her falling to the ground.

I was tapping away at the door of his recollections, camera all ready.

The camera passes to each hostage in turn to allow them to plead with the Lebanese government to let them live.

Then he's quiet, while I, nonplussed, just stare until he adds, “The camera must never move.”

We see photographs of him with his arm around Joan Jett, two punks mugging for the camera.

If it should come, he wished for a camera—a moving picture camera.

He subtly gestured toward the direction of the camera pointed at their house.