camera vs motion-picture camera

motion-picture camera vs camera

camera and motion-picture camera both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
camera	Yes	No	No	No
motion-picture camera	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, motion-picture camera is a hyponym of camera; that is, motion-picture camera is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than camera:

camera: equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)
motion-picture camera: a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession

Other hyponyms of camera include box camera, box Kodak, candid camera, digital camera, flash camera, cine-camera, movie camera, point-and-shoot camera, Polaroid camera, Polaroid Land camera, portrait camera, reflex camera.

camera (noun)	motion-picture camera (noun)
equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)	a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession
television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

Difference between camera and motion-picture camera

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