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1. academy, n. View full entry a1382
...With capital initial....
2. achronological, adj. View full entry 1962
...Not arranged in order of time; unchronological....
3. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
4. actor, n. View full entry c1384
...A guardian, a steward; a person who acts on behalf of another. Obs....
5. actuality, n. View full entry a1398
...Capacity for action, effective power; activity. Also: an instance of this. Obs....
6. anamorphic, adj. View full entry 1904
...Geol. Applied to a zone characterized by anamorphism (see anamorphism3)....
7. angle shot, n. View full entry 1860
...Billiards and Pool (chiefly U.S.). A shot which causes the cue ball to drive the object ball off at an angle....
8. animated, adj. View full entry 1568
...Endowed with life; living, live....
9. animatic, n. View full entry 1977
...A preliminary mock-up of a film, television commercial, etc., consisting of a succession of images from a storyboard edited together with a soundtrack....
10. animation, n. View full entry 1534
...Inspiration with courage; encouragement; an instance of this. Obs....
11. animatograph, n. View full entry 1896
...A motion picture. Cf. cinematograph...
12. animator, n. View full entry 1565
...A person who or thing which animates, gives life, enlivens, or inspires; †an encourager (obs.)....
13. answer, n. View full entry c950
...A reply made to a charge, whereby the accused seeks to clear himself; a defence. spec. in Law, The counter-statement made in reply to a complainant's bill of...
14. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
15. aspect, n. View full entry 1393
...The action of looking at anything; beholding, contemplation; gaze, view. Obs....
16. assembly, n. View full entry 1330
...Gathering together, meeting; the state of being collected or gathered; = assemblage1....
17. auteur, n. and adj. View full entry 1962
...A film director whose personal influence and artistic control over his or her films are so great that he or she may be regarded as their author, and whose films may be...
18. auteurism, n. View full entry 1968
...= auteur theoryauteur; (also) the position, character, or actions of an auteur....
19. auteurist, n. and adj. View full entry 1975
...An advocate of auteur theory; an auteur (after auteurism) (rare)....
20. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
