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film
- /fɪlm/
- [fɪɫm]
- [ˈfɪlm̩] Ireland, Northern, Northumbria
- [ˈfɪləm] Ireland, Northern, Northumbria
- /fɪu̯m/
- /ˈfɪl(ɪ)m/ South Asia
Rhymes with -ɪlm
Where it comes from
From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. 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.
noun films
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. a clear plastic film for wrapping food
- A medium used to capture images in a camera.
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The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
Similar: movie
- A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally. Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief
- A professionally made movie of a substantial narrative work, around 1 to 3 hours long; a feature film; a cinematic movie.
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
verb films · filming · filmed
- To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.
- To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: celluloid, picture, movie, shoot, motion picture, moving picture, picture show, cinema, flick, take, photographic film, plastic film, laminate, layer, coating, surveying
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noun thin layer
| Español | película, film |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 膜 maku |
| 中文 | 薄膜 bómó |
| हिन्दी | झिल्ली jhillī |
| Português | película, filme |
| Français | pellicule |
| Deutsch | Film |
| Italiano | film, pellicola |
| Ελληνικά | υμένιο yménio, μεμβράνη memvráni |
| Русский | плёнка pljónka |
| Tiếng Việt | màng mỏng, màng |
| العربية | غِطَايَة ḡiṭāya |
| עברית | קְרוּם qrúm |
noun photographic film
| Español | película, film, filme |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 필름 pilleum |
| 日本語 | フィルム firumu |
| 中文 | 膠卷 /胶卷 jiāojuǎn, 膠帶 /胶带 jiāodài, 片子 piānzi, 膠片 /胶片 jiāopiàn |
| हिन्दी | फ़िल्म, पिक्चर pikcar, मूवी mūvī, सिनेमा sinemā, चलचित्र calcitra, चित्रपट citrapaṭ |
| Português | filme, película |
| Français | pellicule |
| Deutsch | Film |
| Italiano | film, pellicola |
| Ελληνικά | φιλμ |
| Русский | плёнка pljónka, фотоплёнка fotopljónka, киноплёнка kinopljónka |
| العربية | فِلْم |
| עברית | סֶרֶט séret, פילם |
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title = {film},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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