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film
/fɪlm/
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What does film mean?
noun
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
More meanings (6)
noun
- 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.
- A professionally made movie of a substantial narrative work, around 1 to 3 hours long; a feature film; a cinematic movie.
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
verb
- To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
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IPA pronunciation
/fɪlm/
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Soot had perched on a low branch and drawn up one leg and dropped the gray film drowsily over his eyes.
The eyes revealed themselves, bright with the glassy film of death—and fixed their dreadful look on the woman in the chair.
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At the feeding point the root continually abstracts water from the soil grains and thus makes the film thinner in that locality.
He knew that a yearning glance fell upon him, now and then, through a film of tears, but he refused recognition of it.
They were disappointed in the result, however, as the pictures, when so enlarged, revealed all the cobweb of fine cracks on the film.