Celluloid

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  • noun. A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Motion-picture film.
  • noun. The cinema; motion pictures.
  • adjective. Made of or using a material made from nitrocellulose and camphor.
  • adjective. Of or portrayed on film or in motion pictures.
  • adjective. Artificial; synthetic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the shape or semblance of cells.
  • noun. A substance made of guncotton, camphor, and some other ingredients, imitating ivory, or, when colored, tortoise-shell, coral, amber, malachite, etc. Many articles, useful and ornamental, are manufactured from it.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
  • noun. The genre of cinema; film.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. artificial as if portrayed in a film
  • noun. highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics
  • noun. a medium that disseminates moving pictures
  • Word Usage
    "Sandlers work is really much the thing to possibly adore or hate. we personally regard You Dont Mess With The Zohan as the misfortune film in celluloid history."
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    xylonite