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film

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–noun
1. a thin layer or coating: a film of grease on a plate.
2. a thin sheet of any material: a film of ice.
3. a thin skin or membrane.
4. a delicate web of filaments or fine threads.
5. a thin haze, blur, or mist.
6. Photography.
a. a cellulose nitrate or cellulose acetate composition made in thin sheets or strips and coated with a sensitive emulsion for taking photographs.
b. a strip or roll of this.
c. the coating of emulsion on such a sheet or strip or on a photographic plate.
7. Movies.
a. a strip of transparent material, usually cellulose triacetate, covered with a photographic emulsion and perforated along one or both edges, intended for the recording and reproduction of images.
b. a similar perforated strip covered with an iron oxide emulsion (magfilm), intended for the recording and reproduction of both images and sound.
c. motion picture.
8. Often, films,
a. motion pictures collectively.
b. the motion-picture industry, or its productions, operations, etc.
c. motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment: experimental film.
–verb (used with object)
9. to cover with a film, thin skin, or pellicle: filmed eyes.
10. Movies.
a. to photograph with a motion-picture camera.
b. to reproduce in the form of motion pictures: to film a novel.
–verb (used without object)
11. to become covered by a film: The water filmed over with ice.
12. Movies.
a. to be reproduced in a motion picture, esp. in a specified manner: This story films easily.
b. to direct, make, or otherwise engage in the production of motion pictures.
Origin:
bef. 1000; 1890–95 for def. 6; 1900–05 for def. 7; ME filme, OE filmen membrane; akin to fell 4

Related forms:
filmlike, adjective

Synonyms:
11. mist, haze, cloud, veil.
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film   (fĭlm)   
n.  
  1. A thin skin or membrane.
  2. A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.
  3. A thin covering or coating: a film of dust on the piano.
  4. A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.
    1. A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.
    2. A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.
    3. A movie.
    4. Movies considered as a group.
    1. A movie.
    2. Movies considered as a group.
  7. A coating of magnetic alloys on glass used in manufacturing computer storage devices.
v.   filmed, film·ing, films

v.   tr.
  1. To cover with or as if with a film.
  2. To make a movie of or based on: film a rocket launch; film a scene from a ballet.
v.   intr.
  1. To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film: The window filmed over with moisture.
  2. To make or shoot scenes for a movie.

[Middle English, from Old English filmen; see pel-3 in Indo-European roots.]
Word History: One indication of the gulf between us and our Victorian predecessors is that the Oxford English Dictionary fascicle containing the word film, published in 1896, does not have the sense "a motion picture." The one hint of the future to be found among still familiar older senses of the word, such as "a thin skin or membranous coating" or "an abnormal thin coating on the cornea," is the sense of film used in photography, a sense referring to a coating of material, such as gelatin, that could substitute for a photographic plate or be used on a plate or on photographic paper. Thus a word that has been with us since Old English times took on this new use, first recorded in 1845, which has since developed and now refers to an art form, a sense first recorded in 1920.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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.

Film

Film\, v. t. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak.

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.
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Language Translation for : film
Spanish: carrete,
German: der Film,
Japanese: フィルム
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film

at 11 [MIT: in parody of TV newscasters]
1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. "ITS crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in scheduler; film at 11."
2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information will be available at some future time, _without_ the implication of anything particularly ordinary about the referenced event. For example, "The mail file server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory. Film at 11." would indicate that a major failure had occurred but that the people working on it have no additional information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal "11:00 news", if people will just be patient.

The variant "MPEGs at 11" has recently been cited (MPEG is a digital-video format.)
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film 
O.E. filmen "membrane, skin," from W.Gmc. *filminjan (cf. O.Fris. filmene "skin," O.E. fell "hide"), extended from P.Gmc. *fello(m) "animal hide," from PIE *pello-/*pelno- (cf. Gk. pella, L. pellis "skin"). Sense of "a thin coat of something" is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid. First used of "motion pictures" in 1905. The verb "to make a movie of" is from 1899.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: film
Pronunciation: 'film
Function: noun
1 a : a thin skin or membranous covering : PELLICLE b : an abnormal growth on or in the eye
2 a : an exceedingly thin layer : LAMINA b : a thin flexible transparent sheet of cellulose acetate or cellulose nitrate coated with aradiation-sensitive emulsion for taking photographs or making radiographs
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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film (fĭlm)
n.

  1. A light-sensitive or x-ray-sensitive substance used in taking photographs or radiographs.
  2. A thin layer or membranous coating.

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