Noun: pix piks
Usage: informal
- Any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
"The priest placed the consecrated hosts in the pix";
- pyx
- A chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
"The newly minted coins were stored in the pix chest before testing";
- pyx, pyx chest, pix chest [archaic]
Usage: informal
- A static picture taken by a camera, recorded by focussing light onto a light-sensitive surface (usually a sensor in a digital camera, or historically a chemically treated plate or film)
"he took a quick pic before moving on";
- photograph, photo, exposure, picture, piccy [informal]
- A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
"they went to a pic every Saturday night";
- movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, flick [informal]
Sounds like: piste, pd, pix, pyx, pick
Derived forms: pixes
Type of: chest, product, production, receptacle, representation
Encyclopedia: Pix, Mary
Pic, Charles