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film
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun film has 5 senses
- film(n = noun.communication) flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show - 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 movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" is a kind of product, production, show
- film(n = noun.communication) celluloid, cinema - a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" is a kind of medium
- film(n = noun.artifact) photographic film - photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies; Array has particulars: footage, microfilm, cine-film, motion-picture film, movie film, negative, orthochromatic film, panchromatic film, positive, reel, roll, roll film, episode, sequence, x-ray film, film clip
- film(n = noun.artifact) Array - a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust" is a kind of object, physical object
- film(n = noun.artifact) plastic film - a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things; Array has particulars: polaroid, shrink-wrap
has parts: episode, sequence, credit, caption, subtitle, credits, scene, shot
has particulars: telefilm, feature, feature film, final cut, home movie, collage film, coming attraction, shoot-'em-up, short subject, docudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment, cinema verite, film noir, skin flick, rough cut, silent movie, silent picture, silents, slow motion, talkie, talking picture, 3-d, 3d, three-d, musical, musical comedy, musical theater
Derived forms verb film1, verb film2
has particulars: silver screen
Derived forms verb film1, verb film2
is a kind of photographic material, photographic paper
Derived forms verb film1, verb film2
has particulars: scum, slick, soap film
is a kind of flat solid, sheet, wrap, wrapper, wrapping
Derived form adjective filmy1
Verb film has 2 senses
- film(v = verb.communication) shoot, take - make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" is one way to enter, put down, record
- film(v = verb.creation) Array - record in film; "The coronation was filmed" is one way to enter, put down, record, create, make
Derived forms noun film3, noun film2, noun film1, noun filming1
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue film the movie
Derived forms noun film3, noun film2, noun film1, noun filming1
Sample sentences:
Did he film his major works over a short period of time?
They will film the duet
CIDE DICTIONARY
film, n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.].
- A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. [1913 Webster]"He from thick films shall purge the visual ray." [1913 Webster]
- hence, any thin layer covering a surface. [1913 Webster]
- A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. [1913 Webster]"Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film." [1913 Webster]
- The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates. [PJC]
- a flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced. [PJC]
- a motion picture. [PJC]
- the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the phrase
the film . [PJC] - a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film. [PJC]
film, v. t.
- To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. [1913 Webster]"It will but skin and film the ulcerous place." [1913 Webster]
- to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's War and Peace. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
film, n. & v.
--n.
1 a thin coating or covering layer.
2 Photog. a strip or sheet of plastic or other flexible base coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, either as individual visual representations or as a sequence which form the illusion of movement when shown in rapid succession.
3 a a representation of a story, episode, etc., on a film, with the illusion of movement. b a story represented in this way. c (in pl.) the cinema industry.
4 a slight veil or haze etc.
5 a dimness or morbid growth affecting the eyes.
6 a fine thread or filament .
--v.
1 a tr. make a photographic film of (a scene, person, etc.). b tr. (also absol.) make a cinema or television film of (a book etc.). c intr. be (well or ill) suited for reproduction on film.
2 tr. & intr. cover or become covered with or as with a film.
--n.
1 a thin coating or covering layer.
2 Photog. a strip or sheet of plastic or other flexible base coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, either as individual visual representations or as a sequence which form the illusion of movement when shown in rapid succession.
3 a a representation of a story, episode, etc., on a film, with the illusion of movement. b a story represented in this way. c (in pl.) the cinema industry.
4 a slight veil or haze etc.
5 a dimness or morbid growth affecting the eyes.
6 a fine thread or filament .
--v.
1 a tr. make a photographic film of (a scene, person, etc.). b tr. (also absol.) make a cinema or television film of (a book etc.). c intr. be (well or ill) suited for reproduction on film.
2 tr. & intr. cover or become covered with or as with a film.
Idiom
film-goer a person who frequents the cinema. film star a celebrated actor or actress in films. film-strip a series of transparencies in a strip for projection.
Etymology
OE filmen membrane f. WG, rel. to FELL(5)
THESAURUS
film
3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, London fog, London special, Photostat, Rabelaisianism, Technicolor, Western, X-rated movie, X-ray, Xerox, actor-proof, all-star, animated cartoon, apply to, backing, ballet, balletic, bawdiness, bawdry, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, blanket, blear, block, blue movie, blur, bulletin board, calotype, canopy, capture on film, card, cartoon, cartridge, catalog card, chiller, cine, cinema, cinematic, cinematographic, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coating, collop, color film, color negative film, cope, cover, cover up, covering, cowl, creepie, curtain, cut, deal, defocus, dim, dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, disc, disk, documentary, documentary film, dope, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, drisk, drizzling mist, dry plate, dusting, eclipse, educational film, emulsion, enamel, erotic art, erotic literature, erotographomania, facing, fade away, feature, fescenninity, feuille, file, filing card, filmic, filth, filthiness, flap, flick, flicker, fog, foil, fold, foulness, frame, frost smoke, fur, gauze, glaze, ham, hammy, haze, haziness, histrionic, hood, horror picture, horse opera, iconolagny, index card, integument, lacquer, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lay on, lay over, layer, leaf, legitimate, lewdness, library catalog, lose resolution, magnetic tape, mantle, mask, melodramatic, membrane, microcard, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, milked, mist, mistiness, monochromatic film, monodramatic, motion picture, motion-picture film, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, muffle, mug, murkiness, nastiness, negative, newsreel, nudie, obduce, obscenity, obscure, occult, offensiveness, operatic, orthochromatic film, overacted, overlay, overplayed, overspread, pack, paint, pale, pan, panchromatic film, pane, panel, patina, pea soup, pea-soup fog, peasouper, peel, pellicle, phonograph record, photodrama, photograph, photographic paper, photomap, photoplay, pic, picture, picture show, plait, plank, plate, plating, platter, ply, plywood, pornographic art, pornographic film, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, preview, printing paper, put on, radiograph, rasher, revetment, ribaldry, roentgenograph, roll, safety glass, salaciousness, salacity, scale, scenic, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, screen, scum, scurrility, sexploitation, sheet, shield, shoot, short, show, silent, silent film, skin, skin flick, slab, slat, slice, slip, smog, smut, smuttiness, snap, snapshoot, snapshot, sneak preview, soft-core pornography, soften, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, spaghetti Western, spectacular, spread over, stag film, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, steam, stellar, superimpose, superpose, table, tablet, take, take a photograph, talbotype, talkie, talking picture, tape, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thriller, thrown away, ticker tape, trailer, tripack, underacted, underground film, underplayed, vapor, varnish, vaudevillian, vehicle, veil, veneer, video, videotape, vileness, waferROGET THESAURUS
film
Layer
N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.Opacity
N opacity, opaqueness, film, cloud, opaque, impervious to light, adiaphanous, dim, turbid, thick, muddy, opacous, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous, muggy, smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.Semitransparency
N semitransparency, translucency, semiopacity, opalescence, milkiness, pearliness, gauze, muslin, film, mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre, mist, opal, turbidity, Adj, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, V, opalesce, (ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT.
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