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"
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