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De - Pt| English Dictionary: 'Film | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Film \Film\, n. (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates; also, the flexible sheet of celluloid or the like on which this layer is sometimes mounted. {Celluloid film} (Photog.), a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates. {Cut film} (Photog.), a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Film \Film\, n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See {Fell} skin.] 1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering. He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. --Pope. 2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. --Shak. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Film \Film\, v. t. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak. | |
