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Film   /fɪlm/   Listen
noun
Film  n.  
1.
A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. "He from thick films shall purge the visual ray."
2.
Hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
3.
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. "Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film."
4.
(Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.
5.
(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.
6.
A motion picture.
7.
The art of making motion pictures; used mostly in the phrase the film.
8.
A thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.
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.


verb
Film  v. t.  
1.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. "It will but skin and film the ulcerous place."
2.
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.





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"Film" Quotes from Famous Books



... murmur of voices fell on my ear as the door was opened, and I knew that I was not to see the Doctor alone, but I did not anticipate facing such a gathering as I gazed at wildly, with my heart throbbing, my cheeks hot, and a film coming ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
... the doctor's equipage rolling leisurely up Prytania Street, Tony's wife sat in her chair and laughed,—laughed with a hearty joyousness that lifted the film from the dull eyes ...
— The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories • Alice Dunbar
... difference. That was Strong's invention. Before he invented the Piccadilly collar so-called, paper collars had a brilliant glaze that would not have deceived the most recent arrival from the most remote shire in the country. Strong devised some method by which a slight linen film was put on the paper, adding strength to the collar and giving it the appearance of the genuine article. You bought a pasteboard box containing a dozen of these collars for something like the price you paid for the washing of half a dozen linen ones. The Danby and Strong ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr
... acting with hundreds of persons in a great scene for a motion picture film, we should be told what to do by a man called the director. He could not make us all hear if we were out of doors and scattered about in groups, but he would telephone orders to his helpers. One of these would be with each large crowd of actors. Perhaps the telephones would be hanging on ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford
... was as if over the surface of a pool a film of ice formed. He sank back in his chair, and when he spoke again it was in a voice so hard and cold that the ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates


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