Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin skin or membrane.
- noun A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
- noun A thin covering or coating.
- noun A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.
- noun A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.
- noun A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.
- noun A movie, especially one recorded on film.
- noun The presentation of such a work.
- noun A long, narrative movie.
- noun Movies collectively, especially when considered as an art form.
- noun A coating of magnetic alloys on glass used in manufacturing computer storage devices.
- intransitive verb To cover with or as if with a film.
- intransitive verb To record on film or video using a movie camera.
- intransitive verb To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film.
- intransitive verb To make or shoot scenes for a movie.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very thin skin or membrane; a pellicle; an attenuated layer, lamina, or sheet of any substance: as, a membranous or watery film over the eye; a film of oil or gelatin; a film of lace, gauze, etc.; a film of air between two plates.
- noun Specifically In photography: The coating on a plate mechanically and chemically prepared to serve as a medium for taking a picture, either before or after it has been sensitized: as, the collodion film of the wet plate, or the gelatin film of the dry plate.
- noun A skin or film, usually composed in great part of gelatin, made to serve as a medium for receiving a picture, as that described under
- noun but so prepared as to be independent of any supporting plate, or to admit of being stripped intact from such a plate.
- noun A fine thread, as of a cobweb.
- To cover with a film, or thin skin or pellicle.
- To become covered by a film; become obscured, as if covered by a film.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- noun hence, any thin layer covering a surface.
- noun A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
- noun (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.
- noun (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.
- noun a motion picture.
- noun the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the phrase the film.
- noun a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects.
- noun (Photog.) a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates.
- noun (Photog.) a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.
- transitive verb To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
- transitive verb to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
thin layer of some substance. - noun photography A
medium used to captureimages in acamera . - noun A
motion picture . - verb To record a motion picture on photographic film
- verb To cover with a thin skin or
pellicle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thin coating or layer
- verb record in film
- verb make a film or photograph of something
- noun a medium that disseminates moving pictures
- noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- noun a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
- noun photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Apart from being the first instance in 24 years of a work by Philip K. Dick being adapted into something other than an action film, A Scanner Darkly is probably best known for utilizing a rotoscoping animating technique, in which animation is superimposed over live film**.
A Saturday Afternoon Double Feature Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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Still like his film score for Jim Jarmusch's _film _Dead Man_ best, and the Wire work after that, but a music concert film so well-filmed I kept wanting to applaud with the crowd after every song.
[film] Neil Young: Heart of Gold badger 2006
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Apart from being the first instance in 24 years of a work by Philip K. Dick being adapted into something other than an action film, A Scanner Darkly is probably best known for utilizing a rotoscoping animating technique, in which animation is superimposed over live film**.
Archive 2006-10-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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OK, perhaps its a bit cruel to suggest that Disney's first 3D computer animated film under the management of John Pixar Lasseter is a calculated smoothie of every Pixar film* squeezed through a Disney anodyne making machine.
FreakyTrigger 2009
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As a film maker, it is important to me to have * the film* seen by the public, especially in Indonesia * as one of my main targeted audiences*, "he said.
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“Some people connect the term film noir,” writes Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, “to the famous yellow-and-black Série Noire series of translations of American writers like Chandler and Hammett published by Gallimard.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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“Some people connect the term film noir,” writes Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, “to the famous yellow-and-black Série Noire series of translations of American writers like Chandler and Hammett published by Gallimard.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Your remarks on the vogue for the term film noir seem to imply that it was casually created by a bunch of movie critics operating in their pretentious twit mode.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Your remarks on the vogue for the term film noir seem to imply that it was casually created by a bunch of movie critics operating in their pretentious twit mode.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Your remarks on the vogue for the term film noir seem to imply that it was casually created by a bunch of movie critics operating in their pretentious twit mode.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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