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ALL meanings of film

film
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  • noun film piece of cinema entertainment 1
  • noun film strip of celluloid etc for recording 1
  • noun film thin layer 1
  • transitive verb film record as moving images 1
  • noun film plastic covering 1
  • noun film opaque obstruction 1
  • intransitive verb film record moving images 1
  • intransitive verb film be recorded 1
  • intransitive verb film become coated with a thin layer 1
  • transitive verb film coat in a thin layer 1
  • noun film a thin layer or coating: a film of grease on a plate. 1
  • noun film a thin sheet of any material: a film of ice. 1
  • noun film a thin skin or membrane. 1
  • noun film a delicate web of filaments or fine threads. 1
  • noun film a thin haze, blur, or mist. 1
  • noun film Photography. a cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate composition made in thin sheets or strips and coated with a sensitive emulsion for taking photographs. a strip or roll of this. the coating of emulsion on such a sheet or strip or on a photographic plate. 1
  • noun film Movies. a strip of transparent material, usually cellulose triacetate, covered with a photographic emulsion and perforated along one or both edges, intended for the recording and reproduction of images. a similar perforated strip covered with an iron oxide emulsion (magfilm) intended for the recording and reproduction of both images and sound. motion picture. 1
  • noun film Often, films. motion pictures collectively. the motion-picture industry, or its productions, operations, etc. motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment: experimental film. 1
  • verb with object film to cover with a film, thin skin, or pellicle: filmed eyes. 1
  • verb with object film Movies. to photograph with a motion-picture camera. to reproduce in the form of motion pictures: to film a novel. 1
  • verb without object film to become covered by a film: The water filmed over with ice. 1
  • verb without object film Movies. to be reproduced in a motion picture, especially in a specified manner: This story films easily. to direct, make, or otherwise engage in the production of motion pictures. 1
  • noun film A thin flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, used to produce photographs or motion pictures. 1
  • countable noun film A film consists of moving pictures that have been recorded so that they can be shown at the cinema or on television. A film tells a story, or shows a real situation. 0
  • verb film If you film something, you use a camera to take moving pictures which can be shown on a screen or on television. 0
  • uncountable noun film Film of something is moving pictures of a real event that are shown on television or on a screen. 0
  • variable noun film A film is the narrow roll of plastic that is used in a camera to take photographs. 0
  • uncountable noun film The making of cinema films, considered as a form of art or a business, can be referred to as film or films. 0
  • countable noun film A film of powder, liquid, or oil is a very thin layer of it. 0
  • uncountable noun film Plastic film is a very thin sheet of plastic used to wrap and cover things. 0
  • noun film a sequence of images of moving objects photographed by a camera and providing the optical illusion of continuous movement when projected onto a screen 0
  • noun film a form of entertainment, information, etc, composed of such a sequence of images and shown in a cinema, etc 0
  • noun film (as modifier) 0
  • noun film a thin flexible strip of cellulose coated with a photographic emulsion, used to make negatives and transparencies 0
  • noun film a thin coating or layer 0
  • noun film a thin sheet of any material, as of plastic for packaging 0
  • noun film a fine haze, mist, or blur 0
  • noun film a gauzy web of filaments or fine threads 0
  • noun film an abnormally opaque tissue, such as the cornea in some eye diseases 0
  • verb film to photograph with a cine camera 0
  • verb film to make a film of (a screenplay, event, etc) 0
  • verb film to cover or become covered or coated with a film 0
  • noun film a fine, thin skin, surface, layer, or coating 0
  • noun film a sheet or roll of a flexible cellulose material coated with an emulsion sensitive to light and used to capture an image for a photograph or film (sense 5) film (sense 5a) 0
  • noun film a thin veil, haze, or blur 0
  • noun film an opacity of the cornea 0
  • noun film a sequence of photographs or drawings projected on a screen in such rapid succession that they create the optical illusion (because of the persistence of vision) of moving persons and objects 0
  • noun film a play, story, etc. photographed as such a sequence 0
  • noun film the business of making films 0
  • noun film a fine filament 0
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