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noun
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A medium used to capture images in a camera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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noun
The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A professionally made movie of a substantial narrative work, around 1 to 3 hours long; a feature film; a cinematic movie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
a thin coating or layer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: object, physical object
Narrower terms: scum, slick, soap film
noun
photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: photographic film
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: photographic paper, photographic material
Narrower terms: footage, microfilm, motion-picture film, movie film, cine-film, negative, orthochromatic film, panchromatic film, positive, reel, roll, roll film, sequence, episode, X-ray film, film clip
noun
a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: plastic film
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sheet, flat solid, wrapping, wrap, wrapper
Narrower terms: Polaroid, shrink-wrap
noun
a medium that disseminates moving pictures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: cinema, celluloid
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Broader terms: medium
Narrower terms: silver screen
noun
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: movie, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: product, production, show
Narrower terms: telefilm, feature, feature film, final cut, home movie, collage film, coming attraction, shoot-'em-up, short subject, documentary, docudrama, documentary film, infotainment, cinema verite, film noir, skin flick, rough cut, silent movie, silent picture, silents, slow motion, talking picture, talkie, three-D, 3-D, 3D, musical, musical comedy, musical theater
verb
make a film or photograph of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: shoot, take
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: record, enter, put down
Narrower terms: reshoot
verb
record in film
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: record, enter, put down, make, create
Narrower terms: cinematize, cinematise, microfilm
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.
Across languages
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