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Film

//fɪlm// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. countable, uncountable

    "a clear plastic film for wrapping food"

  2. 2
    a thin coating or layer wordnet
  3. 3
    A medium used to capture images in a camera. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies wordnet
  5. 5
    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. uncountable

    "Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film."

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  1. 6
    a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things wordnet
  2. 7
    The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie. countable
  3. 8
    a medium that disseminates moving pictures wordnet
  4. 9
    A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb. countable, uncountable

    "Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film."

  5. 10
    a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. ambitransitive

    "A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC."

  2. 2
    make a film or photograph of something wordnet
  3. 3
    To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound. ambitransitive
  4. 4
    record in film wordnet
  5. 5
    To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. transitive

    "It will but skin and film the ulcerous place."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”), Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). 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.

Etymology 2

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”), Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). 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.

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