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Film - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Film : (noun)
1: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of
images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they
went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was
shot on location" [syn: movie, picture, moving
picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture
show, picture show, pic, flick]
2: a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces
transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good
cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" [syn: cinema,
celluloid]
3: a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film
of dust"
4: a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent)
material used to wrap or cover things [syn: plastic film]
5: photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid
covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make
negatives or transparencies [syn: photographic film]
(verb)
1: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene";
"shoot a movie" [syn: shoot, take]
2: record in film; "The coronation was filmed"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Film : \Film\, n. (Photog.)
The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the
sensitive salts of photographic plates; also, the flexible
sheet of celluloid or the like on which this layer is
sometimes mounted.
Celluloid film (Photog.), a thin flexible sheet of
celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin,
and used as a substitute for photographic plates.
Cut film (Photog.), a celluloid film cut into pieces
suitable for use in a camera.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Film : \Film\, n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen
membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.]
1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing
opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
--Pope.
2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
--Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Film : \Film\, v. t.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Film : Film: Slang shortening of X-ray film, an X-ray, a radiograph.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Film |
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nictate: Each new Christopher Guest Film has offered diminishing comedic returns for me, but, good grief, the heights he hit were muthableepin' heady |
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jishnu_namboori: RT @Film__festivals Johnny - Depp was awarded the Bahamas International Film Festival ...: 2009 Bahamas International Film Festival (Bahamas |
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ClayMariner: In Portland's burbs, showered, ate, visited, watched a Film & am now ready to try to sleep this wee cold off-performin again in AM #fb |
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