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Pix
Definitions
- 1 plural of pic (“picture”) form-of, informal, plural, plural-normally
"Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category."
- 2 Obsolete spelling of pyx. alt-of, obsolete
"[F]oraſmuche as we have often and many tymes, to our inwarde regrete and diſpleaſure, ſeen at oure Jen, in diverſe and many Churches of our Realme, the holie Sacrament of the Aulter kept in ful simple and inhoneſt Pixes, ſpecially Pixes of copre and tymbre: we have appointed and commaunded the Treſourer of our Chambre, and Maiſtre of our Juellhouſe, to cauſe to be made furthwith Pixes of ſilver and gilte, in a greate nombre, for the keping of the holie Sacrament of th'Aultre, after the faction of a Pixe that we have cauſed to be delivered to theim, […]"
- 3 any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept wordnet
- 4 Motion pictures; movies. plural, plural-normally, specifically
"Mutual has started a campaign to substitute a word for the term “Movies.” It contemplates the use of the word “Pix” and thinks this would be welcomed as a short word for the headline writer and amply descriptive."
- 5 a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay wordnet
- 1 Obsolete spelling of pyx. alt-of, obsolete
"The bread that was left of this consecration or breaking, which was so holy as the other, was neither housed nor churched, boxed nor pixed, but remained there still to the householders, to be eaten of whomsoever lusted."
Etymology
Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.
A variant of pyx.
A variant of pyx.
See also for "pix"
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