ZOETROPE

Definition: ZOETROPE

ZOETROPE

Noun

1. An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ZOETROPE" was first used: 1869. (references)

Etymology: Zoetrope \Zo"e*trope\, noun. [Greek expression for life turning, from to turn.]. (references)

Modern Usage: ZOETROPE

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Zoetrope (2000)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Zoetrope

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A zoetrope is a circular device with slits cut vertically in the sides which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced photographs. When the viewer views through the slits on the outside, (s)he sees the equivalent of a motion picture.

Picture: http://www.imperica.com/sofia/camera/zoetrope.html

There were several such pre-cinematography animation devices. Might be an idea to have a page on them. I can't think of a good page name -- Tarquin

Rough list to be moved:

the flick book
that sort of spinning disc with string...
there's one similar to the zoetrope, but it's a disc with slots that's held vertically in front of a mirror and spun. One looks through the slots to the reflection beyond.

Note: American Zoetrope is Francis Ford Coppola's movie production company.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Zoetrope."

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Commercial Usage: ZOETROPE

Domain	Title
Books	Zoetrope - La Fabrica de Sueos (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Zoetrope [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ZOETROPE

"ZOETROPE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ZOETROPE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ZOETROPE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
zoetrope	81
american zoetrope	11
zoetrope all story	7
studio virtual zoetrope	4
zoetrope studio	4
zoetrope magazine	3
make a zoetrope	3
picture zoetrope	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ZOETROPE

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	zoe. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: ZOETROPE

Misspellings
	"ZOETROPE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: azeotrope, zeotrope, zeotropic, zoatrope, zoetroe, zootrope, Zosterops. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ZOETROPE"

Words rhyming with "ZOETROPE" (pronounced 'Zo"e*trope'): Chromatrope, Platetrope, Rheotrope, Sematrope, trope. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ZOETROPE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-o-o-p-r-t-z"
	-2 letters: potzer.
	-3 letters: peter, repot, topee, toper, troop, trooz, trope.
	-4 letters: ooze, orzo, peer, pert, poet, poor, pore, port, pree, prez, repo, rete, root, rope, rote, roto, tope, tore, toro, tree, trop, zero.
	-5 letters: ere, oot, ope, opt, ore, ort, pee, per, pet, pot, pro, ree, rep, ret, roe, rot, tee, toe, too, top, tor.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-o-o-p-r-t-z"
	+1 letter: azeotrope.
	+2 letters: azeotropes.
	+4 letters: contemporize.
	+5 letters: contemporized, contemporizes, trapezohedron.
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