Pix

[piks] /pɪks/

noun
1.
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[piks] /pɪks/
noun, plural pix for 2.
1.
a plural of 1 .
2.
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[pik] /pɪk/
noun, plural pix
[piks] /pɪks/ (Show IPA), pics. Slang.
1.
a movie.
2.
a photograph.
[peek] /pik/
noun, Piquet.
1.
the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands and in the play before one’s opponent scores a point.
2.
the bonus of 30 points won for so scoring.
[piks] /pɪks/
noun
1.
Ecclesiastical.

2.
Also called pyx chest. a box or chest at a mint, in which specimen coins are deposited and reserved for trial by weight and assay.
/pɪks/
plural noun
1.
(informal) photographs; prints
/pɪks/
noun
1.
a less common spelling of pyx
/pɪk/
noun (pl) pics, pix
1.
(informal) a photograph, picture, or illustration
/pɪks/
noun
1.
Also called pyx chest. the chest in which coins from the British mint are placed to be tested for weight, etc
2.
(Christianity) any receptacle in which the Eucharistic Host is kept
n.

variant of pics, 1930 (see pic).
n.

c.1400, “a box,” especially the vessel in which the host or consecrated bread is preserved, from Latin pyxis, from Greek pyxis “box-wood; a box,” from pyxos “box-wood; box-tree,” of uncertain origin.
n.

1884 as a shortening of picture (n.). Short for motion picture from 1936. Colloquial piccy is recorded from 1889.

modifier

: pix credit

noun

noun

A picture, and later esp a movie; flick: Raft’s next pic (1884+)
pictures
[motion] picture
1.
Pictor (constellation)
2.
pressurized ion chamber
3.
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