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单词 cyclorama
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Definition of cyclorama in English:

cyclorama

noun ˌsʌɪkləˈrɑːməˌsaɪkləˈræmə
  • 1A circular picture of a 360° scene, viewed from inside.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We're trying to get as close as we can to creating the illusion of being in the cyclorama in 1884.
    • An obvious refinement in the bloody 19th century was war, and the cyclorama paintings installed at the battlefields of Waterloo and Gettysburg, their foregrounds strewn with mannequins and relics, still draw the crowds today.
    • At the beginning of 1887, Welch journeyed to Englewood, Illinois, where he and Twachtman has signed on with a group of other artists to paint a cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg.
    1. 1.1 A cloth stretched tight in an arc around the back of a stage set, often used to depict the sky.
      for the setting, I thought just a bare cyclorama would be nice
      Example sentencesExamples
      • American Quartet, danced by the company to the Dvorak string quartet of the same name exuded a sense of youthful optimism in its spacious, freewheeling movement against a backlit cyclorama.
      • Peter designed a nearly bare setting, with a raked stage backed by a cyclorama of rigid vertical strips that could be lit in differing colors and also slid apart at various places to form openings.
      • This impression is reinforced by the panoramic curve of the back wall, which, even though it is painted a uniform dark grey, suggests a cyclorama or stage backdrop.
      • The set was also not reassuring: an enormous blue statue of Eros perched on top of a glittering purple mound of earth with a few metallic trees in front of a corrugated cyclorama.
      • In many ways, Unwin's approach is traditional: the costume is early Jacobean and Neil Warmington's set is simply a raked platform against a grey cyclorama.
      • The set is a mere swing suspended from an invisible tree in front of an earth-colored cyclorama on which Jason's lighting rings enthralling changes.
      • Peter Hall directs a production of minimalist elegance played, in true Brechtian tradition, against a dazzling cyclorama.
      • Let's look at some pro tricks that can be adapted for use by the amateur, who does not have banks of floods, hairlights, backlights, cycloramas and the like.
      • The cyclorama backdrop shifted to create a new lateral space on stage.
      • The dancers seemed like isolated figures against the cyclorama and the rake.

Derivatives

  • cycloramic

  • adjectiveˌsʌɪkləˈramɪk
    • A magnificent cycloramic backdrop augments the proceedings adding a regal touch of glamour to this already imposing display.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Panoramas gained much favor on the continent after the Franco-German War, when a huge cycloramic painting of the Siege of Paris was exhibited in Paris.
      • In 1892, the Victorian colonial government through the Exhibition Trustees commissioned John Hennings to paint a cycloramic painting of Melbourne.
      • Another arrangement for projecting cycloramic images is by the use of some type of wide angle, anamorphic image.
      • When the display was completed in 1914, it was among the first museum exhibits anywhere to depict either birds or mammals in a cycloramic presentation of their natural habitat.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from cyclo-, on the pattern of words such as panorama.

Rhymes

amah, armour (US armor), Atacama, Brahma, Bramah, charmer, dharma, diorama, disarmer, drama, embalmer, farmer, Kama, karma, lama, llama, Matsuyama, panorama, Parma, pranayama, Rama, Samar, Surinamer, Vasco da Gama, Yama, Yokohama
 
 

Definition of cyclorama in US English:

cyclorama

nounˌsaɪkləˈræməˌsīkləˈramə
  • 1A circular picture of a 360° scene, viewed from inside.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the beginning of 1887, Welch journeyed to Englewood, Illinois, where he and Twachtman has signed on with a group of other artists to paint a cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg.
    • An obvious refinement in the bloody 19th century was war, and the cyclorama paintings installed at the battlefields of Waterloo and Gettysburg, their foregrounds strewn with mannequins and relics, still draw the crowds today.
    • We're trying to get as close as we can to creating the illusion of being in the cyclorama in 1884.
    1. 1.1 A cloth stretched tight in an arc around the back of a stage set, often used to depict the sky.
      for the setting, I thought just a bare cyclorama would be nice
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In many ways, Unwin's approach is traditional: the costume is early Jacobean and Neil Warmington's set is simply a raked platform against a grey cyclorama.
      • The set was also not reassuring: an enormous blue statue of Eros perched on top of a glittering purple mound of earth with a few metallic trees in front of a corrugated cyclorama.
      • Peter designed a nearly bare setting, with a raked stage backed by a cyclorama of rigid vertical strips that could be lit in differing colors and also slid apart at various places to form openings.
      • Peter Hall directs a production of minimalist elegance played, in true Brechtian tradition, against a dazzling cyclorama.
      • This impression is reinforced by the panoramic curve of the back wall, which, even though it is painted a uniform dark grey, suggests a cyclorama or stage backdrop.
      • The dancers seemed like isolated figures against the cyclorama and the rake.
      • Let's look at some pro tricks that can be adapted for use by the amateur, who does not have banks of floods, hairlights, backlights, cycloramas and the like.
      • The set is a mere swing suspended from an invisible tree in front of an earth-colored cyclorama on which Jason's lighting rings enthralling changes.
      • American Quartet, danced by the company to the Dvorak string quartet of the same name exuded a sense of youthful optimism in its spacious, freewheeling movement against a backlit cyclorama.
      • The cyclorama backdrop shifted to create a new lateral space on stage.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from cyclo-, on the pattern of words such as panorama.

 
 
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