Film

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  • noun. A thin skin or membrane.
  • noun. A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
  • noun. A thin covering or coating.
  • noun. A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.
  • noun. A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A movie, especially one recorded on film.
  • noun. The presentation of such a work.
  • noun. A long, narrative movie.
  • noun. Movies collectively, especially when considered as an art form.
  • noun. A coating of magnetic alloys on glass used in manufacturing computer storage devices.
  • intransitive verb. To cover with or as if with a film.
  • intransitive verb. To record on film or video using a movie camera.
  • intransitive verb. To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film.
  • intransitive verb. To make or shoot scenes for a movie.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A very thin skin or membrane; a pellicle; an attenuated layer, lamina, or sheet of any substance: as, a membranous or watery film over the eye; a film of oil or gelatin; a film of lace, gauze, etc.; a film of air between two plates.
  • noun. Specifically In photography: The coating on a plate mechanically and chemically prepared to serve as a medium for taking a picture, either before or after it has been sensitized: as, the collodion film of the wet plate, or the gelatin film of the dry plate.
  • noun. A skin or film, usually composed in great part of gelatin, made to serve as a medium for receiving a picture, as that described under
  • noun. but so prepared as to be independent of any supporting plate, or to admit of being stripped intact from such a plate.
  • noun. A fine thread, as of a cobweb.
  • To cover with a film, or thin skin or pellicle.
  • To become covered by a film; become obscured, as if covered by a film.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
  • transitive verb. to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera.
  • noun. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
  • noun. hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
  • noun. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
  • noun. The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. a motion picture.
  • noun. the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the phrase the film.
  • noun. a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects.
  • noun. a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates.
  • noun. a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A thin layer of some substance.
  • noun. A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  • noun. A motion picture.
  • verb. To record a motion picture on photographic film
  • verb. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a thin coating or layer
  • verb. record in film
  • verb. make a film or photograph of something
  • noun. a medium that disseminates moving pictures
  • noun. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
  • noun. a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
  • noun. photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
  • Word Usage
    "Apart from being the first instance in 24 years of a work by Philip K. Dick being adapted into something other than an action film, A Scanner Darkly is probably best known for utilizing a rotoscoping animating technique, in which animation is superimposed over live film**."
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