talkie
IPA: tˈɔki
noun
- (informal, dated or historical) A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
- (dated or historical) A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.
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Examples of "talkie" in Sentences
- The advent of talkies alarmed him.
- It started straight way with a talkie.
- The walkie talkie is used to communicate.
- It is credited as the first Bengali talkie.
- Coquette launched Pickford as a competent talkie star.
- This would be incompatable with the technology of the talkie.
- And finally, how to listen to satellites with a walkie talkie is here.
- Coquette was the first talkie of Pickford, ex wife of his brother Owen.
- His first "talkie" was "The Great Dictator" (1940), a masterpiece satirizing Hitler and Nazism.
- His mobile phone, the size of a second world war walkie-talkie, is among the ancient possessions returned to him.
- Lucien tossed me the walkie-talkie from the very back of the group and smirked, knowing the officers would have to shut up now.
- A mom in West Virginia says her 3-year-old's Diego walkie-talkie, which is supposed to have a range of 20 feet, picked up some blue talk from truckers who may have been 275 miles away.
- Granton Trawler is undoubtedly a "talkie" - no music perhaps, but a rich tapestry of natural sounds, from whistling and waves to gulls, creaks and the thick-accented fishermen onboard the titular vessel.
- It's still a young entertainment medium -- comparing them chronologically to film, games have really only reached their "talkie" phase -- but a story is a story, and games really just haven't been adapted very well.
- The sound leakage is minimized, its low babble filling the otherwise quiet spaces until you position yourself directly below each "talkie" picture's acoustic projector (or in a few more intimate cases don the headphones).
- You certainly don't hear or read people in our modern age "right around now" on the dachshund of time using some old-timy, "olden days" term like moving pictures to describe a movie or "talkie" these days... so why the "still photography"?