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Canon Definition–noun | 1. | an ecclesiastical rule or law enacted by a council or other competent authority and, in the Roman Catholic Church, approved by the pope. |
| 2. | the body of ecclesiastical law. |
| 3. | the body of rules, principles, or standards accepted as axiomatic and universally binding in a field of study or art: the neoclassical canon. |
| 4. | a fundamental principle or general rule: the canons of good behavior. |
| 5. | a standard; criterion: the canons of taste. |
| 6. | the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired. |
| 7. | any officially recognized set of sacred books. |
| 8. | any comprehensive list of books within a field. |
| 9. | the works of an author that have been accepted as authentic: There are 37 plays in the Shakespeare canon. Compare apocrypha (def. 3). |
| 10. | a catalog or list, as of the saints acknowledged by the Church. |
| 11. | Liturgy. the part of the Mass between the Sanctus and the Communion. |
| 12. | Eastern Church. a liturgical sequence sung at matins, usually consisting of nine odes arranged in a fixed pattern. |
| 13. | Music. consistent, note-for-note imitation of one melodic line by another, in which the second line starts after the first. |
| 14. | Printing. a 48-point type. |
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Sport Definition–noun | 1. | an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. |
| 2. | a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors. |
| 3. | diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime. |
| 4. | jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously. |
| 5. | mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him. |
| 6. | an object of derision; laughingstock. |
| 7. | something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything. |
| 8. | something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc. |
| 10. | Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike,
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fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well. |
| 11. | Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler. |
| 12. | Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant. |
| 13. | Biology. an organism or part that shows an
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unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation. |
| 14. | Obsolete. amorous dalliance. |
–adjective | 15. | of, pertaining to, or used in sports or a particular sport. |
| 16. | suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes. |
–verb (used without object) | 17. | to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation. |
| 18. | to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal. |
| 19. | to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport. |
| 20. | to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions. |
| 21. | to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life. |
–verb (used with object) | 23. | to pass (time) in amusement or sport. |
| 24. | to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often fol. by away). |
| 25. | Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., esp. with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat. |
| 26. | Archaic. to amuse (esp. oneself). |
—Idiom| 27. | sport one's oak. oak (def. 5). |
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Camera Definition–noun | 1. | a boxlike device for holding a film or plate sensitive to light, having an aperture controlled by a shutter that, when opened, admits light enabling an object to be focused, usually by means of a lens, on the film or plate, thereby producing a photographic image. |
| 2. | (in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses. |
| 3. | a judge's private office. |
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—Idioms| 5. | in camera, | a. | Law. in the privacy of a judge's chambers. |
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| 6. | off camera, out of the range of a television or motion-picture camera. |
| 7. | on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera: Be sure to look alert when you are on camera. |
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