“film”

Definitions

• noun

  a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

  Synonyms: movie, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick, cinemascope, cinerama, photostat

  • Example:“They went to a movie every Saturday night.”
  • Example:“The film was shot on location.”

• noun

  a medium that disseminates moving pictures

  Synonyms: cinema, celluloid

  • Example:“Theater pieces transferred to celluloid.”
  • Example:“This story would be good cinema.”

• noun

  photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

  Synonyms: photographic film

• noun

  a thin coating or layer

  • Example:“The table was covered with a film of dust.”

• noun

  a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

  Synonyms: plastic film

• verb

  make a film or photograph of something

  Synonyms: shoot, take

  • Example:“take a scene”
  • Example:“shoot a movie”