film

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

1. To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
2. To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
3. To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

Concepts

film

movie

motion picture

shoot

membrane

picture

cinema

photograph

pellicle

moving picture

scum

celluloid

flick

coating

photographic film

picture show

layer

sheet

take

pic

record

negative

diaphragm

thin coating

photo

thin skin

tissue

lamina

show

video

plastic film

motion-picture show

moving-picture show

transparency

ribbon

tape

film negative

lamella

jockey

tunica

thin coat

cinematize

portray

thin-layer

cine film

movie film

image

pictures

roll of film

fibre

silver screen

make movie

shoot a movie

take a motion picture

make a movie

coat

glaze

overlay

priming

snap

photoplay

froth

lather

carnival

play

representation

cinefilm

cellulose film

foils

laminates

packaging materials

shrink film

cine-film

movie picture

speck

web

band

banderol

banderole

belt

cordon

fillet

strip

stripe

tapeworm

negative film

negative picture

original

photographic negative

movies

photodrama

picture film

film coating

chip

flake

layered

leaf

piece

section

segment

slice

slide

tablet

wafer

film fiche

lacquer

hymen

hymeno

membrana

webbing

pump

surge

flag

lamination

seam

shallow layer

thin layer

thin film

thin foll

roll film

cladding

cladding material

feature film

adventitia

head

meninx

skim

theca

tunic

veil

velum

tissue layer

delineate

depict

describe

illustrate

limn

profile

qualify

represent

move picture

go on

add

collect

continue

get

go

pick up

regain

reprimand

resume

retake

revive

scold

take back

bioscope

output

pix

production

talking movie

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪlm/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Shall we watch a film at the cinema this afternoon ?

The film contains a judicious amount of kicking and slapping .

The film was predominantly shot in Lagos .

It uses material written by Stravinsky for aborted film projects .