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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Film \Film\, v. t. 1. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. [1913 Webster] It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; or Tolstoy's War and Peace. [PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. hence, any thin layer covering a surface. [1913 Webster +PJC] 3. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. [1913 Webster] Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates. [PJC] 5. (Photog.) a flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced. [PJC] 6. a motion picture. [PJC] 7. the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the phrase the film. [PJC] 8. a thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film. [PJC] {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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: film n 1: 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" [syn: {movie}, {film}, {picture}, {moving picture}, {moving-picture show}, {motion picture}, {motion-picture show}, {picture show}, {pic}, {flick}] 2: a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" [syn: {film}, {cinema}, {celluloid}] 3: photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies [syn: {film}, {photographic film}] 4: a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust" 5: a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things [syn: {film}, {plastic film}] v 1: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: {film}, {shoot}, {take}] 2: record in film; "The coronation was filmed" From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: film /film/ film; motion picture; movie From Italian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-ita-eng]: film film; motion picture; movie From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Film /film/ film; movie [Am.]; picture From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: film /film/ 1. filmstrip 2. film; motionpicture; movie 3. film From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]: film film; motionpicture; movie