FILM : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: FILM	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for FILM
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
film n a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" Synonym(s): movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" Synonym(s): film, cinema, celluloid photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies Synonym(s): film, photographic film a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust" a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things Synonym(s): film, plastic film v make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" Synonym(s): film, shoot, take record in film; "The coronation was filmed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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]:
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]:
Film \Film\, v. t. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak.