film

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Meaning

1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
2. A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
4. The sequence of still images itself; a movie.
5. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

movie

picture show

photographic film

thin coating

thin skin

plastic film

motion-picture show

moving-picture show

portray

image

thin-layer

thin coat

film negative

move picture

make a movie

roll film

roll of film

shoot a movie

movie picture

thin film

thin layer

make movie

take a motion picture

cellulose film

packaging materials

shrink film

movie film

tissue layer

film coating

negative film

shallow layer

cladding material

negative picture

photographic negative

picture film

film fiche

hymeno

thin foll

talking movie

movie film

cine-film

illustrate

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪlm/

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). 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.