What's The Definition Of Film?
[n] a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust"
[n] photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
[n] a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
[n] a medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverange of sporting events"
[n] a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
[v] make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
[v] record in film; "The coronation was filmed"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Film: celluloid |
cinema |
flick |
motion picture |
movie |
moving picture |
photographic film |
pic |
picture |
picture show |
plastic film |
shoot |
take
Related Terms | Find terms related to Film: 3-D |
actor-proof |
all-star |
animated cartoon |
apply to |
backing |
ballet |
balletic |
bawdiness |
bawdry |
bibliofilm |
bipack |
black-and-white film |
blanket |
blear |
block |
blue movie |
blur |
bulletin board |
calotype |
canopy |
capture on film |
card |
cartoon |
cartridge |
catalog card |
chiller |
cine |
cinema |
Cinemascope |
cinematic |
cinematographic |
Cinerama |
cloak |
clothe |
cloud |
coat |
coating |
collop |
color film |
color negative film |
cope |
cover |
cover up |
covering |
cowl |
creepie |
curtain |
cut |
deal |
defocus |
dim |
dirt |
dirtiness |
dirty movie |
disc |
disk |
documentary |
documentary film |
dope |
dramatic |
dramatical |
dramaturgic |
drisk |
drizzling mist |
dry plate |
dusting |
eclipse |
educational film |
emulsion |
enamel |
erotic art |
erotic literature |
erotographomania |
facing |
fade away |
feature |
fescenninity |
feuille |
file |
filing card |
filmic |
filth |
filthiness |
flap |
flick |
flicker |
fog |
foil |
fold |
foulness |
frame |
frost smoke |
fur |
gauze |
glaze |
ham |
hammy |
haze |
haziness |
histrionic |
hood |
horror picture |
horse opera |
iconolagny |
index card |
integument |
lacquer |
lamella |
lamina |
laminated glass |
laminated wood |
lap |
lay on |
lay over |
layer |
leaf |
legitimate |
lewdness |
library catalog |
London fog |
London special |
lose resolution |
magnetic tape |
mantle |
mask |
melodramatic |
membrane |
microcard |
microdot |
microfiche |
microfilm |
milked |
mist |
mistiness |
monochromatic film |
monodramatic |
motion picture |
motion-picture film |
motion-picture show |
movie |
moving picture |
muffle |
mug |
murkiness |
nastiness |
negative |
newsreel |
nudie |
obduce |
obscenity |
obscure |
occult |
offensiveness |
operatic |
orthochromatic film |
overacted |
overlay |
overplayed |
overspread |
pack |
paint |
pale |
pan |
panchromatic film |
pane |
panel |
patina |
pea soup |
pea-soup fog |
peasouper |
peel |
pellicle |
phonograph record |
photodrama |
photograph |
photographic paper |
photomap |
photoplay |
Photostat |
pic |
picture |
picture show |
plait |
plank |
plate |
plating |
platter |
ply |
plywood |
pornographic art |
pornographic film |
pornographic literature |
pornographomania |
pornography |
preview |
printing paper |
put on |
Rabelaisianism |
radiograph |
rasher |
revetment |
ribaldry |
roentgenograph |
roll |
safety glass |
salaciousness |
salacity |
scale |
scenic |
scoreboard |
scorecard |
scoresheet |
screen |
scum |
scurrility |
sexploitation |
sheet |
shield |
shoot |
short |
show |
silent |
silent film |
skin |
skin flick |
slab |
slat |
slice |
slip |
smog |
smut |
smuttiness |
snap |
snapshoot |
snapshot |
sneak preview |
soft-core pornography |
soften |
sound film |
sound track |
sound-on-film |
soundstripe |
spaghetti Western |
spectacular |
spread over |
stag film |
stagelike |
stageworthy |
stagy |
starstruck |
steam |
stellar |
superimpose |
superpose |
table |
tablet |
take |
take a photograph |
talbotype |
talkie |
talking picture |
tape |
Technicolor |
theaterlike |
theatrical |
thespian |
thriller |
thrown away |
ticker tape |
trailer |
tripack |
underacted |
underground film |
underplayed |
vapor |
varnish |
vaudevillian |
vehicle |
veil |
veneer |
video |
videotape |
vileness |
wafer |
Western |
Xerox |
X-rated movie |
X-ray
See Also | 3D |
3-D |
caption |
cine-film |
cinema verite |
cinematise |
cinematize |
coming attraction |
create |
credit |
credits |
docudrama |
documentary |
documentary film |
enter |
enter |
episode |
episode |
feature |
feature film |
film clip |
flat solid |
footage |
home movie |
infotainment |
make |
medium |
microfilm |
microfilm |
motion-picture film |
movie film |
negative |
object |
oil slick |
orthochromatic film |
panchromatic film |
peepshow |
photographic material |
photographic paper |
physical object |
Polaroid |
positive |
put down |
put down |
record |
record |
reel |
reshoot |
retake |
roll |
roll film |
scene |
scum |
sequence |
sequence |
sheet |
shoot-'em-up |
short subject |
shot |
show |
silent movie |
silver screen |
slow motion |
soap film |
subtitle |
talkie |
talking picture |
three-D |
wrap |
wrapper |
wrapping |
X-ray film
Film In Webster's Dictionary
\Film\, n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen
membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See {Fell} skin.]
1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing
opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
--Pope.
2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
--Shak.
\Film\, v. t.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak.
\Film\, n. (Photog.)
The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the
sensitive salts of photographic plates; also, the flexible
sheet of celluloid or the like on which this layer is
sometimes mounted.
{Celluloid film} (Photog.), a thin flexible sheet of
celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin,
and used as a substitute for photographic plates.
{Cut film} (Photog.), a celluloid film cut into pieces
suitable for use in a camera.
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