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Definition of 'Film' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) film
a thin layer or coating.

2.  film
a thin sheet of any material:
a film of ice.

3.  film
a thin skin or membrane.

4.  film
a delicate web of filaments or fine threads.

5.  film
a thin haze, blur, or mist.

6.  film
a cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate composition made in thin sheets or strips and coated with a light-sensitive emulsion for taking photographs or motion pictures.

7.  film
Often, films,

8.  film
motion pictures collectively.

9.  film
the motion-picture industry, or its productions, operations, etc.

10.  film
motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment:
experimental film.

11. (v.t.) film
to cover with a film, thin skin, or pellicle.

12.  film
to photograph with a motion-picture camera.

13.  film
to reproduce in the form of a motion picture:
to film a novel.

14. (v.i.) film
to become covered by a film.

15.  film
to direct, make, or otherwise engage in the production of motion pictures.

Etymology:  (bef. 1000; ME filme, OE filmen membrane)

Definition of 'Film' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
"they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"

2. (noun) film, cinema, celluloid
a medium that disseminates moving pictures
"theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events"

3. (noun) film, photographic film
photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

4. (noun) film
a thin coating or layer
"the table was covered with a film of dust"

5. (verb) film, plastic film
a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

6. (verb) film, shoot, take
make a film or photograph of something
"take a scene"; "shoot a movie"

7. (verb) film
record in film
"The coronation was filmed"


Definition of 'Film' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) film
to record moving pictures with a camera
We're filming the last few scenes in the studio.

2. (noun) film
a movie
a film about the American civil war

3.  film
the movie industry
I work in film.

4.  film
a thin layer or coating of sth formed on a surface
a film of ice

5.  film
a plastic material used for taking photographs
a roll of film; scenes caught on film


Definition of 'Film' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Film
a thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering

2. (noun) Film
a slender thread, as that of a cobweb

3. (verb) Film
to cover with a thin skin or pellicle


Translation of 'Film' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (a thin strip of) celluloid made sensitive to light on which photographs are taken
photographic film.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: film Arabic flag Arabic: فِلْم Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: слой
Brazilian flag Brazilian: filme Czech flag Czech: film German flag German: der Film
Danish flag Danish: film Greek flag Greek: ταινία, φιλμ Spanish flag Spanish: carrete
Estonian flag Estonian: film(ilint) Farsi flag Farsi: فیلم Finnish flag Finnish: filmi
French flag French: pellicule Hebrew flag Hebrew: סֶרֶט צִילוּם Hindi flag Hindi: सिनेमा
Croatian flag Croatian: film za fotografije Hungarian flag Hungarian: film Indonesian flag Indonesian: film
Icelandic flag Icelandic: filma Italian flag Italian: pellicola Japanese flag Japanese: フィルム
Korean flag Korean: 감광막, 필름 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: filmas Latvian flag Latvian: fotofilma
Malay flag Malay: filem Dutch flag Dutch: film Norwegian flag Norwegian: film
Polish flag Polish: film, błona Persian flag Persian: فیلم Pashto flag Pashto: فلم
Portuguese flag Portuguese: filme Romanian flag Romanian: filtru Russian flag Russian: (фото)плёнка
Slovak flag Slovak: film Slovenian flag Slovenian: film Serbian flag Serbian: film
Swedish flag Swedish: film Thai flag Thai: เยื่อบาง ๆ Turkish flag Turkish: film
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 膠捲,底片 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: плівка Urdu flag Urdu: مسالہ چڑھی نرم پلاسٹک جو
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: phim Chinese flag Chinese: 软片

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