# film

Pronunciation: US say "FILM" /fɪlm/; UK

## Noun

1. A sequence of still images that produces a moving picture when played; a movie.
   - Simple: A movie that you watch in a theater or at home.
   - _The director's new film opens in theaters next week._
   - _Critics praised the film for its bold storytelling._
3. Motion pictures as a whole, seen as a visual art in which a series of still images recorded on a medium creates the illusion of movement.
   - Simple: The art of making and watching movies, told through pictures shown to look like real motion.
   - _She teaches the history of early film at the university._
   - _Modern film owes much to the silent comedies of the 1920s._
4. A medium used inside a camera to capture images.
   - Simple: A thin strip used inside a camera to capture pictures.
   - _She prefers shooting on film rather than digital._
   - _The photographer developed the film in a darkroom._
5. A thin layer or coating of a substance spread over a surface.
   - Simple: A very thin layer that covers a surface.
   - _A film of grease covered the kitchen window._
   - _The pond was coated with a film of green algae._
6. Thin, pliable plastic or a comparable material in sheet form, used especially for wrapping, packaging, or covering.
   - Simple: A thin sheet of plastic or something like it that bends easily, used mostly to wrap or cover things.
   - _Workers stretched film around each pallet before it was loaded onto the truck._
   - _The cucumbers are sold sealed in a tight plastic film to keep them fresh longer._

## Verb

2. To make a visual recording of events or of a motion picture, whether or not sound is included.
   - Simple: To record moving pictures of something with a camera.
   - _The crew will film the wedding from two angles._
   - _Documentary makers often film for months before editing._
7. To cover, or become covered, with a thin skin or coating.
   - Simple: To cover something with a thin layer, or to become covered with one.
   - _As the gravy cooled on the stove, its surface began to film over with a wrinkled skin._
   - _A light sheen of sweat filmed his forehead by the time he reached the top of the trail._

## Noun

8. A very fine strand, like the threads of a spider's web. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: A thin thread, like one from a spider's web.

## Origin

Old English filmen ("film, membrane, thin skin") became Middle English filme. Its deeper roots, in Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-European, meant "membrane" and "to cover or skin," and German Fell ("skin, hide") and Dutch vel ("sheet, skin") are related. The meaning "a thin coat of something" appears in 1577. By 1845 it covered the coating on photographic plates, and by 1895 the coating together with its paper or celluloid backing.

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