Definitions for film
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 4 votes

1. movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flicknoun

   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. film, cinema, celluloidnoun

   a medium that disseminates moving pictures

   "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events"

3. film, photographic filmnoun

   photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

4. filmnoun

   a thin coating or layer

   "the table was covered with a film of dust"

5. film, plastic filmverb

   a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

6. film, shoot, takeverb

   make a film or photograph of something

   "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"

7. filmverb

   record in film

   "The coronation was filmed"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Filmnoun

   (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.

2. Filmnoun

   (Photog.) a flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced.

3. Filmnoun

   a motion picture.

4. Filmnoun

   the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the phrase the film.

5. Filmnoun

   a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.

6. Filmnoun

   hence, any thin layer covering a surface.

7. Filmverb

   to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's War and Peace.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. filmnoun

   A thin layer of some substance.

2. filmnoun

   A medium used to capture images in a camera.

3. filmnoun

   A motion picture.

4. filmverb

   To record a motion picture on photographic film

   "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."

5. filmverb

   To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

   It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. uE000106912uE001 Shakespeare.

6. Etymology: From filme, from filmen, from filminjan (compare felmōn), from pélno-mo, from pel(w)-. Cognate with filmene, vel, Fell, fjäll, fille, plėvē 'membrane, scab', Russian plevá 'membrane', Greek pélma 'foot sole'. 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.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FILMnoun

   A thin pellicle or skin.

   Etymology: fylmeha, Saxon.

   While the silver needle did work upon the sight of his eye, to remove the film of the cataract, he never saw any thing more clear or perfect than that white needle. Francis Bacon, N. Hist.

   Michael from Adam’s eyes the film remov’d,
   Which that false fruit that promis’d clearer sight
   Had bred. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii. l. 412.

   A stone is held up by the films of the bladder, and so kept from grating or offending it. John Graunt, Bills of Mortality.

   There is not one infidel so ridiculous as to pretend to solve the phænomena of sight, fancy, or cogitation, by those fleeting superficial films of bodies. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

   He from thick films shall purge the visual ray,
   And on the sightless eyeballs pour the day. Alexander Pope, Messiah.

2. To Filmverb

   To cover with a pellicle or thin skin.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
   Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
   Infects unseen. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. film

   Film refers to a medium that captures, records, and reproduces moving visual images, typically with accompanying audio, for the purpose of entertainment, cultural expression, education, or documentation. It involves the creation and manipulation of sequential frames, which when played back rapidly, give the illusion of motion. Films serve as a powerful storytelling tool, offering a diverse range of narratives, genres, and artistic expressions to engage and captivate audiences.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Filmnoun

   a thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering

2. Filmnoun

   a slender thread, as that of a cobweb

3. Filmverb

   to cover with a thin skin or pellicle

4. Etymology: [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Film

   film, n. a thin skin or membrane: a very slender thread: the coating on a plate prepared to act as a medium for taking a picture.—v.t. to cover with a film, or thin skin.—n. Film′iness.—adj. Film′y, composed of film or membranes. [A.S. filmen, extended from fell, a skin.]

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1. film

   The film symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the film symbol and its characteristic.

2. FILM

   What does FILM stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FILM acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FILM

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Film is ranked #153769 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Film surname appeared 106 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Film.
   
   91.5% or 97 total occurrences were White.
   4.7% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'film' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1013

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'film' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1120

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'film' in Nouns Frequency: #312

Anagrams for film »

1. MILF

How to pronounce film?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of film in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of film in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of film in a Sentence

1. Doug Steiner:

   Old media has always been based in New York City and continues to be based( here), film and television has been anchored in LA and high-tech has always been in northern California, but I think right now we're seeing everything coming together in New York.

2. Anna Zafesova:

   He has dozens of young women and men perfectly capable of carrying on his investigative work. Maybe they are less charismatic than he, but they are proof that the Russian opposition is not only virtual and cannot be silenced with the poisoning of its leader. POISONED KREMLIN CRITIC ALEXEI NAVALNY OUT OF COMA AND RESPONSIVE: GERMAN HOSPITAL Navalnys spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh and fellow team member Georgi Alburov front the Tatarstan film, and said they were followed and harassed while shooting by men who blocked their paths with quad bikes or lurked nearby. Some dramatic images along those lines appear in the film.Yarmysh talks about how Tatarstan was supposed to be one of Navalnys stops on his late summer swing through Russian regions ahead of elections. Navalny was lobbying forSmart Voting. He argued that ifhe and people like him couldnt run in elections in Russia, the next best thing wasto simply vote for a candidate who is not from the same party as President Vladimir Putin, United Russia. Navalnyfamously called it the party of crooks and thieves and wantedto chip away at its monopoly on power howeverpossible.He believes Smart Voting can eventually dislodge it from power. GERMANY SUGGESTS HALT TO RUSSIA PIPELINE PROJECT, SEEKS COOPERATION WITH NAVALNY POISONING INVESTIGATION In the documentary from Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, Navalnys team keeps up his stylistic pace with drone video of what itidentifiesas the palatial homes of the regional president and his family, punctuated withvideoof the vast collection of fancy watches from Patek Phillipe to Breguet worn byleaderRustam Minnikhanov. Even if you dont understand Russian, it is compelling TV, Zafesova said. Navalnys investigations have evolved over the years from merely facts and analysis on his blog to full-scale movies.He invented a whole new way to oppose power, a mix of media and politics which is very important in a censored media environment like Russia and fills the void of free media as well as free debate and an independent judicial system.Navalnys videos are funny, clever, precise and shocking, not just angry denunciations of the wrongdoings of government.

3. Jim Abrahams:

   'Kentucky Fried Movie' was going to film school.

4. Joe Drake:

   This is the best reviewed film of the series so far, we believe word-of-mouth will continue to drive strong business for the film all over the world.

5. Joseph Fiennes:

   We strived very hard in getting the balance between cinema and Scripture, working with the church communities in the process of making the film has allowed us to stay as true as possible to Scripture.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=film
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=film
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Film
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=film
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/film
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=film
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html