Film

Quick meaning: Film is a noun meaning A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

Meaning

A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

More Meanings

1. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
2. (countable) The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
3. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
4. (ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
5. (ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
6. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
7. (uncountable) 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.

Example Sentences

a clear plastic film for wrapping food

Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.

Word Forms

• films
• filming
• filmed

Synonyms for film

Depending on context, synonyms include movie, take, flick, picture, shoot, celluloid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include celluloid, picture, movie, shoot, motion picture, cinema.

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